Values Quotes

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

~ Dennis Prager

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

~ Tran Duc Luong

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

~ Dennis Prager

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

~ Ayn Rand

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

~ Matthew Stewart

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

~ Peter L. Bergen

The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.

~ Alex Gibney

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

~ Jerry Falwell

In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.

~ Mahesh Babu

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

~ Wes Borland

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

~ Patricia Velasquez

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

~ Tony Campolo

That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

~ Tia Carrere

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

~ Marine Le Pen

In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

~ Rabih Alameddine

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

~ Dalai Lama

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

~ Swami Sivananda

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

~ Rudy Giuliani

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

~ Sheri Fink

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

~ Hugh Hefner

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

~ Norman Thomas

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

~ Ma Jian

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

~ Glenn Greenwald

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

~ Condoleezza Rice

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

~ William Ralph Inge

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

~ Milton Friedman

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

~ William A. Dembski

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

~ Jan Peter Balkenende

Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

~ Loretta Lynch

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

~ Roy E. Disney

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

~ John Fleming

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.

~ Monica Crowley

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

~ Rahm Emanuel

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

~ Rahm Emanuel

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

~ Deval Patrick

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

~ Alain De Botton

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

~ Angela Merkel

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

~ Nick Clooney