#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

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#great #humanist #present #seen #slump

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#female #i #male #man #same

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

— Birch Bayh

#family values #i #know #need #republicans

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#commitment #education #hard #hard work #iowa

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#experiences #ideological #moral #moral values #usa

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. ↗

— Harry Browne

#become #bigger #children #either #family