Top 100 Human Values Quotes
#1. On issue after issue, the counterpoints to the conservative principle of the free market are the progressive principles of human dignity and the common good. We are interested in a market that serves human values, not humans who serve a market. Take
George Lakoff
#2. 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
#3. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.
Amit Ray
#4. 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
#5. The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Sam Harris
#6. How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.
Sathya Sai Baba
#7. 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
#8. The value of education is among the greatest of all human values ...
Virginia Woolf
#9. The future belongs to social media. It is egalitarian and inclusive. Social media is not about any country, any language, any colour, any community but it is about human values and that is the underlying link binding humanity.
Narendra Modi
#10. The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.
Christopher Lasch
#11. Vampires often turn on those who trust them. We don't have human values, you know." "A lot of humans turn on those who trust them," I pointed out. I can be practical. "I'm not a total fool.
Charlaine Harris
#12. If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.
Dalai Lama
#13. This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.
Shmuley Boteach
#14. So, if you don't fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.
George Monbiot
#15. 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
#16. Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
Kailash Satyarthi
#17. The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.
Noam Chomsky
#18. 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
#19. Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
Al Alvarez
#20. There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
Dalai Lama
#21. Wherever I go meeting the public ... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Dalai Lama
#22. Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.
Sathya Sai Baba
#23. 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 XIV
#24. Who says that tradition cannot be changed? The traditions which go against the human values has to be changed, otherwise it is like a poisonous snake that is hanging on our neck to kill us.
Pratibha Ray
#25. Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.
Sathya Sai Baba
#26. 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
#27. In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
Sathya Sai Baba
#28. 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
#29. [T]he person who is normal in terms of being well adapted is often less healthy than the neurotic person in terms of human values. Often he is well adapted only at the expense of having given up his self in order to become more or less the person he believes he is expected to be.
Erich Fromm
#30. Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.
Henry Beston
#31. ...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.
Margaret Obank
#32. Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what is right and wrong and independent will that helps us to choose right over wrong.
Jeroninio Almeida
#33. In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
Dalai Lama
#34. I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship of all our real human values ...
Jack Kerouac
#35. The deepest human values are universal. Without exception, people are born sweet and loving.
Mia Sage
#36. We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!
Tony Dovale
#37. Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook
#38. The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.
Anais Nin
#39. If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.
Dalai Lama XIV
#40. Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.
Sathya Sai Baba
#41. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
Herman Wouk
#42. The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.
Sathya Sai Baba
#43. 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
#44. If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.
Liv Ullmann
#45. There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
#46. 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
#48. 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
#49. Contemporary philosopher Max More describes the goal of humanity as a transcendence to be achieved through science and technology steered by human values.
Ray Kurzweil
#50. Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.
William J.H. Boetcker
#51. 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 XIV
#52. In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
Sherry Turkle
#56. People with no human values are worse than zombies.
Mohith Agadi
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities ... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.
Sulak Sivaraksa
#60. Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.
Dr. Milan LaBrey
#61. Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
Jacob Bronowski
#62. It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
Sathya Sai Baba
#63. We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.
Dalai Lama
#64. In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.
Norbert Wiener
#65. 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
#66. Our mind cannot be without fear and our head cannot be held high when we become slaves to materialistic values , always wondering why my car is not bigger and better than my neighbours car and in that process forget our human values like dignity, humility , integrity and humanity.
Jeroninio Almeida
#67. As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
Henry Beston
#68. 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
#69. All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#73. 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
#74. If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.
Anwar Sadat
#75. You did not expect human values from a machine. You did not grow angry with a machine, or be disappointed or feel betrayed by it. You treated it with detachment and curiosity, as you would any soul-deprived object, and if it kicked you in the teeth, you side-stepped and kicked it back, harder.
Dorothy Dunnett
#76. 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
#77. The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
#78. 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
#79. By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are human values. Its preservation is a purpose that arises out of man's own sense of his fundamental needs
Howard Zahniser
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#84. I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.
Dalai Lama
#85. Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
Narendra Modi
#86. The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?
Sathya Sai Baba
#87. Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.
Vladimir Putin
#88. I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.
Shinzo Abe
#89. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.
Ilchi Lee
#90. Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.
Dalai Lama
#91. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#92. The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.
Paulo Freire
#93. I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.
Alexander McCall Smith
#94. Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
John Mackey
#95. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#96. But there is something delusional nonetheless in his optimistic certainty that human beings will wish to choose altruistic values without invoking transcendent principles. They may do so; but they may also wish to build death camps, and may very well choose to do that instead. For
David Bentley Hart
#97. It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.
Alex Bruce
#98. 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
#99. When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.
Sameh Elsayed
#100. If a religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order, then Soviet Communism was no less a religion than Islam.
Yuval Noah Harari
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