“I am extremely critical. I am seriously wondering whether we are taking ourselves and our values seriously or if we are throwing them overboard.”

— Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Austria's interior minister hit out on Thursday about a proposed deal between the European Union and Turkey on migrants and refugees, saying Europe was in danger of "throwing its values overboard", quoted on Thelocal.at, "Austria 'extremely critical' of EU-Turkey migrant deal" http://www.thelocal.at/20160310/austria-extremely-critical-of-mooted-eu-turkey-migrant-deal, March 10, 2016.

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“I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.”

Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden (1762–1832) British barrister and judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench

Rex v. Middleton (1819), 1 Chit. Rep. 656.

“I submit that religious values and political realities are so inter-linked in the origin and perpetuation of this nation that we cannot lose the influence of religion in our public life without seriously jeopardizing our freedoms.”

Dallin H. Oaks (1932) Apostle of the LDs Church

" Dallin H Oaks - Religious Liberty's Canterbury Medal http://www.deseretnews.com/topics/561/Dallin-H-Oaks.html", Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Statement

“Knowing Yourself …We also seldom know what gifts we are not endowed with. We will have to learn where we belong, what we have to learn to get the full benefit from our strengths, where our weaknesses lie, what our values are. We also have to know ourselves temperamentally: "Do I work well with people, or am I a loner? What am I committed to? And what is my contribution?"”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself Leader to Leader, No. 16 (Spring 2000)
1990s and later

“To have a crowd like this on our final day, can you believe it, this is the day. This is the day we take our country back. Remember that. This is the day we take our country back. So I got a little notice in case you see it. It's security guys. We have wonderful security guys. They said, "Mr. Trump, there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience." So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously… Okay? Just knock the hell… I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise. I promise. There won't be so much cause the courts agree with us too. What's going on in this country.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

At a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-knock-the-crap-out-of-tomato-throwers/2016/02/01/1d1fe1e2-c92b-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_video.html (1 February 2016)
2010s, 2016, February