#values

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker. ↗

— Andrew Bernstein

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There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

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In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

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

— Rocco Buttiglione

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The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#beliefs #countries #developing #domination #east

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#approach #arbitrary #argument #based #between

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. ↗

— Alan Cranston

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