Quotes About Values

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

I'm truthful -- which is very nearly unpardonable in civilized society.

By being the master of the house. Back in America the woman is the ruler of the home, but in England everything revolves around the man.

They shop at Dollar Tree because they don't want to get dressed up for Walmart.

Not for the first time, Tom reflected there was no understanding women. It wasn't that they were illogical. Just the opposite. Their logic was of a higher order, too complex and advanced to submit to a complete proof calculus. Women assigned mysterious values to details a man would overlook, and were able to draw piercing conclusions about his innermost secrets.

A man wasn't entitled to lie or take advantage of others merely because he didn't respect them.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

A man who doesn't stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.

We used to sit up on the roof with the couple from across the hall and play records and dance?' I sighed, wondering how we had come so far up in income and so far down in the things that really mattered.

I was raised that way too.

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God.

had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He

We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?

The Enlightenment values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are being reconfigured. Life now includes the larger life of the earth, individual freedom requires responsibility to community, and happiness is being defined as more than material goods.

A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.