Values Quotes - Page 24

• In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Stupidity, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Party, Independent, Responsibility

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• To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

  Angela Merkel

  Xenophobia, Fighting, Racism

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• I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Life, Mind, Earth

  "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress" by United States, Congress, Vol. 110, part 17, (p. 22821), 1964.

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• We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.

  Steve Miller

  Health, Benefits, Bullish

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• I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.

  James Meredith

  Strong, Mean, Government

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• Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

  Bob Walker

  Zero, People, Want

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• I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Country, Believe

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• The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

  Naftali Bennett

  Ideas, Office, Prime

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• The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Fashion, Insecure, Men

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• We do have, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we're going to have to be a lot braver... in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.

  Nigel Farage

  Christian, Country, Culture

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• We will take all appropriate actions based on the results of the investigation to ensure that the integrity and values of the SeaWorld organization are upheld.

  Joel Manby

  Integrity, Organization, Action

  "SeaWorld suspends employee accused of infiltrating animal rights group". www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2015.

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• With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Earning It, Young

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.74, Applewood Books

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• The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act.
  "Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, "Whatever is true ... pure ... if there be any virtue ... think on these things." Thus, the
  follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Heart, Men

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 04, 2017

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• You're only as good as your values.

  Herb Brooks

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• We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

  Louie Giglio

  Our Words, May, Our Actions

  Louie Giglio (2009). “Wired: Student Edition of The Air I Breathe”, p.13, Multnomah

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• Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated - it matters...that people matter.

  Steve Goodier

  People, Want, Might

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• Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Rain, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Simple, Environmental, Golden

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• Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, People, Giving

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost...a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

  David W. Orr

  Ideas, Perception, Mind

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• A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Civilization, Roots

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• We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host.

  Paul Hawken

  Jobs, Cities, Environmental

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• Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Children, Hands, Should Have

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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