Holds
Values
Values noun - Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
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- Socialism holds that a society which only values freedom inevitably results in some being much, much freer than others.
- Stirling's The Draka series: a mega evil slaver doom empire, built on opposition to the very values that the Western world holds dear, takes over the world.
Source: Literature / Decades of Darkness - Spring Awakening (the original play) was written just before the 1900s, but still holds a lot of Values Resonance on cultural/religious repression and sexuality.
Source: Values Resonance
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