Love sets the foundation for all human values.

Life has a way of filling up one’s time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don’t want them to suffer. And...

if you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what...

We treat the things that soak up energy and resources like they’re valuable, and the things that generate them like they’re disposable. We don’t celebrate batteries. And I think that’s wrong.

Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of...

People attempt to create association b/n you and your values. Oh, Mary- the girl who is caring; you mean the company with quality products?

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty–these are Christian values.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies’ histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we...

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I...

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it...

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

Faith is important to me. It’s important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.

Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.

If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.

You have to realise that I am the third out of six children, and I am raised with very strong core values and a very strong upbringing. I always put myself in other people’s shoes.

Inventory:”Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and...

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

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

Find people who share your values, and you’ll conquer the world together.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States…capable of maintaining the rule of democracy…. Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores…. I am convinced that...

I’d rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I’m just ‘Mom.’ At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title,...

Even the best Mindset will become contaminated and eventually blunted in a toxic organisational culture.

Turkey shares Europe’s fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you’d never do. You’ll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly...

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.

Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic.

The Shulamite lives by a different set of values. One of the most horrible frauds perpetrated on western couples is ‘trust your feelings’ or ‘follow your heart.’ Solomon’s family must never be left to whims....

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

It’s not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer’s material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad’s temporal popularity.

Sometimes standing for truth is painful and an isolated journey because truth is not always what we like to hear and live with. However, it is your belief in the purity of truth, your confidence...

Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.

People define you based on what you value…

I didn’t know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

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...

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

I’m a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his...

But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot survive. Pluralism that reflects no commitments whatever to the common good...

Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?”Read more in A Daughter’s Worth Novel

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root… Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the...