Values Quotes
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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
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Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.
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The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
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It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
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It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.
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In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.
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In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
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Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.
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You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.
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Nobody values your time but YOU.
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By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known.
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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
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I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
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When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
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I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism.
