Quotes About Values

There are several kinds of incongruity: – An incongruity between the economic realities of an industry (or of a public-service area); – An incongruity between the reality of an industry (or of a public-service area) and the assumptions about it; – An incongruity between the efforts of an industry (or a public-service area) and the values and expectations of its customers; – An internal incongruity within the rhythm or the logic of a process.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.

What does the situation require? Given my strengths, my way of performing, and my values, how can I make the greatest contribution to what needs to be done? And finally, What results have to be achieved to make a difference?

Values, in other words, are and should be the ultimate test.

The notion that scientific truth directly fosters moral goodness — a legacy of gifted but in this respect misguided amateurs of science like Diderot and Goethe — was receding in the nineteenth century before positivistic procedures which sharply differentiated facts from values.

The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear.

First, people may vary because they inherited different genes from their parents. Second, genetically similar individuals may differ because they have lived in different environments.5 Finally, people may differ because they have acquired different beliefs, values, and skills

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

It is often said that we live in a youth culture. It's a lie. We live in an old culture. We idolize youth because we are old. We are tired and bored. Ancient cultures respected the old because those cultures were young. They were not bored.

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.

A Christian who is willing to take up arms against another Christian is a Christian who has traded in his membership in the post-Babel communion of saints for membership in a nation governed by refurbished stoicheic values. They have traded in their loyalty to the temple of the Spirit for loyalty to the flesh. Christians who make war against other Christians are Galatians, bewitched by the lure of patriotism, which is simply the lure of flesh. They are no longer in the ranks of the Spirit.

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

All she knew was what she read in the papers, where it seemed that people no longer lived their lives, but had life-styles instead.

It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

Why [..] should the boundary of sacrosanct life match the boundary of our species?

moral relativism, a position many find attractive only until they are faced with someone who is doing something really, really wrong.

If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need.

We do not have to make self-sacrifice a necessary element of altruism. We can regard people as altruists because of the kind of interests they have rather than because they are sacrificing their interests.

What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.

the idea that there are objective ethical truths that are independent of what anyone desires.

Those who lie and cheat, but do not believe what they are doing to be wrong, may be living according to ethical standards. They may believe, for any of a number of possible reasons, that it is right to lie, cheat, steal and so on. They are not living according to conventional ethical standards, but they may be living according to some other ethical standards.