Values Quotes

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.