#value

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#american values #earning #empathy #enhance #foreign

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values. ↗

— George Soros

#american values #bush #endangering #hurting #interests

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. ↗

— Terry Southern

#beard #certain #i #known #long

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#companionship #deprived #devise #exercises #human

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. ↗

— Sissy Spacek

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bridges #deal #early #exchange

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#because #could #films #i #just

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#been #day #defender #develop #earliest