top of page
Value Quotes


"The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes."


"I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values."


"It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world."



"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."


"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."



"To be is to be the value of a variable."


"If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it."


"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."


"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."



"America does not fight for land, glory or riches."



"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."


"While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended."


"Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value."


"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."


"We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give."


"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."



"I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value."


"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."


"I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities."


"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious."



"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."


"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."


"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."


"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement."



"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."


"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."


"I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you."


"In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture."


"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."


"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."


"You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it."


"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."


"The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values."


"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."


"We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else."


"The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors."


"The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged."
bottom of page