Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously. – Kailash Satyarthi
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things. – Maya Angelou
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots. – Maajid Nawaz
Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing. – Laura Esquivel
If ‘extreme’ means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I’m going there to represent Colorado values. – Ken Buck
You must engage at the level of people’s higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues. – Jeremy Heimans
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman
I’m not interested in more money for the sake of it. You’re aware that if you’re nicking all the budget, somebody else is getting threepence ha’penny, or the production values aren’t going to be so high. – Kevin Whately
I’m not a comedian. And I’m not sick. The world is sick, and I’m the doctor. I’m a surgeon with a scalpel for false values. – Lenny Bruce
I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can’t always do in a public school setting. – Kerry Healey
And it’s one reason why I don’t go to a lot of movies – they’re more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns. – Jeffrey Wright
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. – Joan Blades
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. – Joshua L. Liebman
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. – Juan Goytisolo
I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It’s helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways. – Lars Peter Hansen
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. – Marshall McLuhan
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio. – Kenny Marchant
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be. – Laura Schlessinger
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man’s principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man’s other tools would be worthless. – Lewis Mumford
Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style. – Kobe Bryant
I think it’s wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I’m not compromising. I don’t care who, what, when or where, I’m not compromising. – Ken Buck
That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world. – Mitt Romney
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love. – Jon Corzine
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty. – Lance Loud