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“Failure to recognize one's own absolute significance is equivalent to a denial of human worth; this is a basic error and the origin of all unbelief. If one is so faint-hearted that he is powerless even to believe in himself, how can he believe in anything else? The basic falsehood and evil of egoism lie not in this absolute self-consciousness and self-evaluation of the subject, but in the fact that, ascribing to himself in all justice an absolute significance, he unjustly refuses to others this same significance. Recognizing himself as a centre of life (which as a matter of fact he is), he relegates others to the circumference of his own being and leaves them only an external and relative value.”
― Vladimir Solovyov, The Meaning of Love

“Love is our most basic human value and also our highest potential.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Little is the imagination of the person who believes that the future of another may be determined by his/her past. We are so much more than our minds and our memories! We are in fact transcendent souls. If you determine what is ahead by what you can see when you look back, then you will in fact never behold what actually stands in front of you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Amateurs are fond of advising that all practical measures should be postponed pending carrying out detailed researches upon the habits of anophelines, the parasite rate of localities, the effect of minor works, and so on. In my opinion, this is a fundamental mistake. It implies the sacrifice of life and health on a large scale while researches which may have little real value and which may be continued indefinitely are being attempted�� In practical life we observe that the best practical discoveries are obtained during the execution of practical work and that long academic discussions are apt to lead to nothing but academic profit. Action and investigation together do more than either of these alone.”
― Ronald Ross, Researches on malaria

“گرچه صاحب پیراهن زرشکی مرده بود اما لباس‌ها�� او هنوز زنده بودند و می‌بایس�� مدت‌ه�� پس از خود او روشنایی آفتاب و سیاهی شب روی آنها بلغزد و لباس‌ها�� او باز هم تحریک شهوت کنند و نگاه مردان از درز تار و پودش بگذرد. لباس‌ها�� تن او پس از صاحب خود، برای این زنده بودند که قابلیت آنها برای زندگی به مراتب بیشتر از مشتی گوشت و خون گندیده صاحبش بود. گوشت و خونی که دوام و ارزش آن در این دنیا از پر کاهی کمتر است.”
― Sādeq Chubak, گزیده داستان‌ها�� کوتاه صادق چوبک

“Each human person is precious and unique. Each has dignity and worth that is inalienable and must be respected. Each must be valued, not because they are a member of the species Homo sapiens, but as an individual person in their own right.”
― Os Guinness, The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

“POVERTY CRIME
When you push people
Into the throes of poverty
They tend to think their value low
And so do they yours
They will not think it grave
To lose their low valued lives
And so will they not yours”
― Mawuena Addo, Roses in the Rainbow

“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.”
― Petek Kabakci

“If Heaven made him �� earth can find use for him.”
― Chinese Proverb

“Philosophy, no matter what its form, is of and about humans. It is not merely about the "idea" of humanity. It is about us: living actual persons. We are the hidden topic of every philosophical conversation.”
― John F. Kavanaugh S.J.

“They're expensive. Fire is cheaper."
"The Hazas don't seem like people wo care much about price."
"They care," he said "if *people* get expensive. Then the people go. I try very hard not to be expensive. I don't want to go.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup