Quotes About Values

Loud songs do not a patriot make.

Status derives from the tendency of people to accord positive and negative values to human attributes and to distribute respect accordingly. In feudal society, a superior status was accorded to the landowning aristocracy and gentry. They were deemed to have breeding and to be the best people to govern the land. They were deferred to as a socially superior body. It was a status that was passed on by inheritance, not one that could be acquired by merit or work.

values. To know the media through which values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture are transmitte

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world. [Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]

We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world. [ Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001 ]

What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batch of youngsters in their turn. "Good practice for life," Uncle said. "Hard knocks, that's all the world's about!" But maybe Uncle had never met anyone like Tom, who was kind to other people and seemed to expect nothing more than kindness in return.

Culture and sacred order are inseparable... No culture has ever preserved itself where there is not a registration of sacred order.

For most people, whether religious or not, spirituality involves values and a principled lifestyle both of which are supported by specific spiritual practices including prayer or meditation.

A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.

Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.

En France, des centaines de milliers de personnes défilent pour défendre l'école privée, qu'ils appellent l'école libre. La captation, l'usurpation de cet adjectif me rend fou. Ma conscience politique s'éveille.

empowered by those values, when we soon encounter them as we develop, or when they keep crossing our paths as we grow old.

How come Angela drives a Porsche and you're driving a ten-year-old Volvo?' Kate asked as they drove away. 'I don't have self-esteem issues,' Amanda said

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

There's one problem with California." I wasn't eager to listen, but the sentence had a promising beginning. "It has no understanding of evil.

Human relations are becoming colder. Communications are becoming more hurried and impersonal. Values such as profit and efficiency are taking on greater importance at the expense of human warmth and genuine presence.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

leur éthique personnelle, qui leur inspire la même horreur de toutes les formes de pharisaïsme, conservateur ou progressiste.

Le succès, le temps, l'argent, et l'imprimerie sont relégués au fond de ma pensée dans des horizons très vagues et parfaitement indifférents. Tout cela me semble bête comme chou et indigne (je répète le mot, indigne) de vous émouvoir la cervelle.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.