I have never found or sought out values whose legitimacy was rooted in the German essence.
Moreover, when government acts to defend people's values, whose values should it choose?
They work best in societies with certain values whose origins may not be entirely rational.
Was it a declaration of idealism, of faith in humanity despite everything, or was it "an act of extreme sarcasm", having children sing of values whose hollowness was being exposed just yards away?
A man of culture with a wide intellect and deeply embedded humanist values, whose conscience was haunted by the deaths, in 1996, of 100 Palestinian refugees killed by an Israeli artillery shell on the Lebanese village of Kafr Kana.
Americans may be self-centered and internationally uneducated, but they do believe that there are values whose defense calls for commitment and self-sacrifice, even if the United States might ignore the threats to them safely.
In short, the British gratuitously destroyed important structures in Washington (and killed many innocent people) because those buildings were obnoxious symbols of American values whose spread and propagation the London government feared would spell the disempowerment of their own.
Lee, though, is not a symbol of our values whose life does not match the ideals he is purported to embody; he is a symbol of the betrayal of those ideals.
Under a hypothetical Monti government, the Northern League would become part of the opposition, as would a prominent center-left party, Italy of Values, whose leader has also called for early elections.
Mr Judt has a "certain idea of Europe", a community of values whose system of inter-state relations is a model to be copied, rather than, as in the past, a warning to be avoided.
Those taken during the 2009 and 2010 Tours, the report said, showed blood values whose likelihood "of occurring naturally was less than one in a million," and other indications of blood doping.
