„The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.“

— Ayn Rand
„The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature — nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present — and it was we who gave and bestowed it.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„All admit that indulgences have some value; for it would be blasphemy to say that the Church does anything in vain.“
— Thomas Aquinas
„Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let go of the earth.“
— Franz Kafka
„That’s why our military can look the way it does — every shade of humanity, forged into common service. That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.“
— Barack Obama