#values

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #values




Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.


Arthur Peacocke


#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.


Ignazio Silone


#civilization #culture #found #group #living

Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders


Fela Durotoye


#impact #leadership #nationalism #values #leadership

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.


Peter Singer


#bush #evil #freedom #hate #his

But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.


Garth Stein


#art

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.


Cornel West


#crisis #everyday #everyday people #fundamental #king

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.


Rebecca West


#certain #great #great music #music #sense

Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.


J. Christopher Herold


#napoleon #women #women-s-rights #age

When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully; treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth.  For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly.


Richelle E. Goodrich


#disrespect #morals #respect #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people.


Jared Diamond


#dispossession #environment #equality #extermination #morality