#values

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. ↗

— Aesop

#chewing #complacency #does #else #get

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. ↗

— Joe Baca

#congress #crucial #equality #founded #freedom

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. ↗

— Howard Dean

#balance of power #been #beliefs #bottom #change

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#bunch #create #drama #fake #family

Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. ↗

— Alice S. Rossi

#challenging #conventional #dislike #disturbed #does

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values. ↗

— Peter Singer

#bush #evil #freedom #hate #his

Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires. ↗

— Criss Jami

#charm #contentment #depth #desire #envy

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13) ↗

— Rollo May

#values #virtue #courage