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• Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from human values and yet wants to live as a human being. To recover human values, man has to take the spiritual path.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Men, Unions

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• This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Generations, Dignity, Behavior

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• It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered, human values can grow only in a spiritual soil. If a man wants to cultivate human values, he has to apply the manure of spirituality to his heart, water it with love so that human values will grow.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

  Anwar Sadat

  Men, Law, Humans

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.

  May Sarton

  Believe, Belief, Talent

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Civilization, Needs

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• Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Social Values, Giving

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• Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, House, Balance

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Lost, Characteristics, Mediums

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• Technology is nothing but an expression of human values. It's not neutral, it's not about efficiency, it's about people's values and their knowledge.

  Ramesh Srinivasan

  Technology, Efficiency, Values

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

  Chip Pitts

  Moral, Human Rights, Sustainability

  "Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?". Interview with William Fisher, truthout.org. April 7, 2010.

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• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, West, Harmony

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• I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Commitment, Compassion

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• The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Machines, States

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Struggle, Commitment

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

  Johnny Carson

  Country, Silly, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Knowing

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• What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.

  Michael Sandel

  Technology, Fundamentals, Debate

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Arrows

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• Doctors should recognise the importance of the five human values; Truth, righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence. Love is the basis for all the other values. Doctors can infuse courage in patients by the love they show towards the patients. If doctors carry out their duties with love they will be crowned with success.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Doctors, Violence

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• Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.

  Geoffrey Miller

  Philosophy, Issues, Rights

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• The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fundamentals, Behaviour, Disaster

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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