Top 100 Human Values Quotes

#1. 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

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#2. 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

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#3. You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family.

Ilchi Lee

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. 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

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#7. Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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#8. 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

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#9. 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

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#10. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.

Amit Ray

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#11. Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

John Mackey

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#12. 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

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#13. 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

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#14. 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

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#15. 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

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#16. The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Sam Harris

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#17. 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

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#18. 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

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#19. 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

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#20. 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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#21. Man's Chief purpose ... is the creation and preservation of values; that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life.

Lewis Mumford

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#22. 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

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#23. Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That's why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.

Harold L. Senkbeil

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#24. We have developed a culture of self-interest, self-gratification, self-aggrandizement, and utter selfishness. We have institutionalized and disseminated these values as never before in human history.

Michael C. Hill

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#25. 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

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#26. The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.

Peter Drucker

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#27. The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Abraham Maslow

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#28. As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.

Jacque Fresco

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#29. Justice' primes the human habitat for peaceful and friendly togetherness. It sets the table - the round table - for polylogue and negotiations guided by the will of agreement. Justice is the most 'socializing' of values.

Zygmunt Bauman

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#30. Yes, but I am not human and to expect me to live by your rules or values is unrealistic. For my kind, I am quite altruistic." Tyler Jones/Dhavenbahtek to Thulu and La Fi.

Maer Wilson

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#31. The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

Dennis Prager

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#32. 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

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#33. You have people with high standards and values as well as people with low ones no matter where you are

Amanda Lee

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#34. The value of education is among the greatest of all human values ...

Virginia Woolf

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#35. But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.

Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

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#36. 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

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#37. 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

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#38. 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

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#39. A UNITED civilization is possible only when human relations are balanced in all transactions which have to do with the distribution of the values of life which all men persistently and constantly seek.

Walter Russell

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#40. No ideology is worth a Human life.

Adriano Bulla

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#41. I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.

King Hussein I

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#42. 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

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#43. Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

Dennis Prager

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#44. We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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#45. If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

Dalai Lama

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#46. It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.

Rollo May

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#47. 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

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#48. The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Dennis Prager

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#49. This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

Shmuley Boteach

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#50. 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

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#51. 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

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#52. Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

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#53. My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

Amy Engel

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#54. All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

Dean Koontz

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#55. Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

Kailash Satyarthi

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#56. Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Max McKeown

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#57. 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

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#58. If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to raise machines with human-like values, we need to make them human-like by simulating, or perhaps eventually imitating, human beings in high accuracy from top to bottom.

David Hanson

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#59. 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

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#60. 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

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#61. Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

Dallas Willard

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#62. Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Sidney Hook

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#63. As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#64. The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.

Johnny Carson

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#65. Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It is in the West that human rights are most respected.

Ibn Warraq

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#66. Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#67. 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

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#68. There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

Dalai Lama

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#69. Wherever I go meeting the public ... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Dalai Lama

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#70. Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#71. 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

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#72. 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

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#73. I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

Claire Danes

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#74. 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

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#75. Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#76. 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

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#77. In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

Sathya Sai Baba

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#78. The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.

Newt Gingrich

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#79. 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

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#80. [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

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#81. As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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#82. 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

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#83. ...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers.

Margaret Obank

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#84. His problem is that he has so completely internalized the values of his society that he judges himself by standards rooted in social myths rather than human necessities.

Christopher Bigsby

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#85. We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.

Grace Lee Boggs

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#86. United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.

Leonard Peltier

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#87. 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

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#88. Rules come from the mind and judgment.
Values come from the heart,
because of this,
love has no rules,
love only has values.

Human Angels

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#89. 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

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#90. Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.

Jim Rohn

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#91. If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the spice of every culture, a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold contradictory beliefs and be riven by incompatible values.

Yuval Noah Harari

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#92. In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

Dalai Lama

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#93. 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

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#94. The deepest human values are universal. Without exception, people are born sweet and loving.

Mia Sage

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#95. Don't you know that nobody can make you be shit? You can only let it happen.

Juxian Tang

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#96. My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.

Tim DeChristopher

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#97. Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

Dan Simmons

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#98. 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

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#99. The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke.

Osama Bin Laden

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#100. Money is only a human invention.

Vanna Bonta

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