Quotes About Values

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

As we've grown our family, that's really when I've started to develop a real, true appreciation of my own faith and not just the academic.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

If it doesn't seem nice, appropriate, or right, don't do it.

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Have you a mind to marry? You hang a stone around your neck; for if you marry for money, what becomes of our exalted notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social conventions at once. Is it nothing to crawl like a serpent before your wife, to lick her mother's feet, to descend to dirty actions that would sicken swine — faugh! — never mind if you at least make your fortune.

Cuando la doctrina del ¿Que pagas? reemplace al ¿Que piensas? y pase a ser patrimonio del pueblo. ¿Que sera del país? pag179

People without religion are capable of anything.

They hated each other's opinions, but they valued each other's character. If such conflicts and such sympathies are not true elements of intimacy we must surely despair of society, which, especially in France, requires some form of antagonism.

Everything can be excused and justified in an age which has transformed vice into virtue and virtue into vice.

Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

De ce accept?m s? coabit?m cu mîrlanii, cu guja?ii, cu escrocii, cu nesim?i?ii? De ce?!!! Democra?ie f?r? discriminare moral? e populism, adic? contrariul spiritului civil. (...) Canaliile, pro?tii, ignarii, scandalagii, inep?ii au devenit deodat?, cu to?ii, din vina noastr?, a civiliza?iilor, frecventabili. E aberant, e complet gre?it. Cu derbedeii nu te înso?e?ti, darmite s? te înh?itezi.

There are no righteous societies; there are simply different degrees of depravity. To