Quotes About Values

On what basis do they say that right and wrong is determined by whether it hurts someone?

Conscience is a man's compass.

Preferiria ganhar 150 francos por mês como pintor do que 1.500 francos por mês por outros meios, mesmo como negociante de quadros.

Theo, do not become materialistic like Tersteeg. The problem is, Theo, my brother, not to let yourself be bound, no matter by what, especially not by a golden chain.

Don't be thanking me," he says. "You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

In so many church situations, nobody thinks they have problems. They simply have convictions and they're trying to get everyone else to live up to them.

money is something but not everything

It is the masculine values that prevail… This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The important thing is to put across the idea that no woman may profit from her sexual services outside marriage. In no case is she adult enough to make a business out of her charms. She necessarily prefers an honest profession. Which is judged honest by the moral authorities. And not degrading. Because for women, sex without love is always degrading.

We all know about morality, and we all know about duty, but at the same time we find that in different countries the significance of morality varies greatly.

The householder is the centre of life and society. It is a worship for him to acquire and spend wealth nobly

Anamodernism insists on a polyvalent synthesis of -isms, more precisely in their introduction into a system of values, which as elements can be used and revalidated.

Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos dedo trabalho são quanto baste.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.

Let us honor if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The end of culture is right living.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Any society is in danger of dismissing the virtue of another society because of its vices, and a democracy is always in danger of not paying enough attention to manners and forms.

Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?