#values

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#values

...the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#self-determination #values

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#alien #american #american people #competitive #entrust

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#values

Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#values

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#family values #i #know #need #republicans

Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#come #determined #here #how #largely

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#actual #although #disastrous #family #family values

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ashamed #even #evolved #human #imaginative

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. ↗

— Liv Ullman

#between #concerned #could #difference #human