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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony. -- Dalai Lama
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. -- Liv Ullmann
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing. -- Dalai Lama
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. -- Paul Berg
A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. -- Garrett Hardin
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? -- Clifford D. Simak
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The Human Values should be regarded as basic requirements for every human being. In spreading the message of these values to the world, you should all cooperate with each other and act in harmony. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. -- Laura Esquivel
In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet. -- Michael Milken
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. -- Sidney Hook
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously. -- Kailash Satyarthi
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms. -- Sam Harris
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. -- Sherry Turkle
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. -- Laura Esquivel
In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace. -- Dalai Lama
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. -- Michael E. DeBakey
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony. -- Dalai Lama
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. -- Dalai Lama
I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values. -- Winthrop Rockefeller
In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity. -- Azim Premji
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie. -- Alvar Aalto
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences. -- Dan Ariely
Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. -- Shari Arison
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs. -- Ai Weiwei
It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force. -- Herbert Bayer
Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development. -- Anna Lindh
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else â?¦ you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values. -- Dalai Lama
We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection. -- Dalai Lama
The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. -- Dennis Prager
In its present terms, the global system values property over human life. -- William Greider
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity. -- Gaston Bachelard
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. -- John Gardner
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. -- Philip Kitcher
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to. -- Susie Bright
Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. -- Sidney Hook
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. -- Shmuley Boteach
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. -- H. P. Lovecraft
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. -- Anwar Sadat
Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other. -- John Mackey
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence. -- Charles William Eliot
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. -- Henry Beston
All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. -- Paul Kurtz
The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior -- Dennis Prager
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost. -- Dalai Lama
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings. -- Dalai Lama
In this chaotic and diverse world, the human race wouldn't have survived and co-exited, thanks to universally shared values. Saved by values! -- Assegid Habtewold
Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible. -- Dallas Willard
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, manâ??s cult of beauty. -- Anais Nin
The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. -- Ronald Reagan
Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good. -- Li Hongzhi
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. -- Helen Prejean
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values. -- John Ziman
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. -- Charles Krauthammer
To Jane Jacob's three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism. -- Peter Calthorpe
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society. -- Charles A. Reich
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values. -- Charles A. Reich
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise. -- Derrick Jensen
Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values. -- Mary Robinson
I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God. -- Rick Perry
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. -- Radhika Coomaraswamy
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. -- David Ben-Gurion
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life. -- Charlie Haden
American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world. -- Hillary Clinton
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness". -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. -- Stephen Covey
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons. -- Marshall McLuhan
Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. -- Gary Chapman
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution. -- Ai Weiwei
Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat. -- Rosika Schwimmer
Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy. -- Donald Tusk
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism ... -- Nathaniel Branden
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. -- Vivienne Westwood
One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears. -- Sathya Sai Baba
What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology. -- Michael Sandel
Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Human values can be listed as 50, 60, 70, 80 in all. But they can be better grouped under the following three heads; pure thoughts, pure words, pure deed; thoughts, words and deed cordinated with one another. -- Sathya Sai Baba
One simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian ... one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend. -- J. William Fulbright
Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe. -- Barack Obama
The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values. -- Douglas Alexander

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