“If our values don't align with the truth, they are valueless values. So our values determine our value.”

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“Today Israel and India are embattled democracies, sharing values and the challenge of terrorism. United in our quest for life, liberty and peace our joint determination to fight for these values can inspire our hopes for a better future for our people.”

Ariel Sharon (1928–2014) prime minister of Israel and Israeli general

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“It's almost as if our society values opinion more than it values knowledge.”

Hank Green (1980) American vlogger

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“We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight.”

Mike Pence (1959) 48th Vice President of the United States

Remarks by Vice President Mike Pence in Special Session of the Knesset — https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-mike-pence-special-session-knesset/ (January 22, 2018)
2010s

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“It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.”

J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) American politician

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Dennis Prager quote: “Truth is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but it is not a leftist value.”
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“Truth is a liberal value, and it is a conservative value, but it is not a leftist value.”

Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian

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“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) American author and social activist
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“It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1920s, What I Believe (1925)
Context: We are and irrefutable arbiters of value, and in the world of value Nature is only a part. Thus in this world we are greater than Nature. In the world of values, Nature in itself is neutral, neither good nor bad deserving of neither admiration nor censure. It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our kingship if we bow down to Nature. It is for us to determine our good life, not for Nature – not even for Nature personified as God.

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“How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

“Values are our moral navigational devices.”

James A. Champy (1942) American businessman

Source: Reengineering management, 1995, p. 78

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