Quotes About Values

When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing,—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really nothing.

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

Better broke than dead.

Mortals simply aren't what they used to be, he said. A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can't even get you to gamble at all, even for your freedom.

Beauty — and all the values that derive from beauty — are not measured and evaluated in terms of the dollar.

If I were going to give you more advice that I myself can't seem to take, I would tell you that in order to build character, you don't invent a new self, you instead build on what's already there. The good parts. The things you love. As horrid as it sounds, at a certain point—i.e., the point we're at now—you build your character on the foundation of all the things you love.

We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things.

Yet will you love a woman, if she prizes truth over softness?

There is no divine judge. So we must supply for ourselves notions of good and ill.

Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey, sahte kahramanlar?n ünlerinden daha kal?c? deÄŸildir.

When a man of ideals decides he is too old to risk everything for what he believes in, then he is no longer a man of ideals. He may no longer be a man at all.

One reason Elvis mattered, she said, was that in his prime, pop music had still been politically innocent, therefore deeply life-affirming, therefore relevant. By the time he died, most pop songs had become, usually without the conscious intention of those who wrote and sang them, anthems endorsing the values of fascism, which remains the case to this day.

Sometimes I am hampered by having a moral code, but I have it nonetheless, like a burr under the brain, with no way to pluck it out.

a touchstone by which they both could test their commitment to what was good and true in a world of darkness and lies. But a touchstone had value only if they acted with reason, from a sense of duty, rather than because sentimentality overtook them.

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

You're probably just like my dad. You have this kind of pride. Honor, he called it. But these days, honor is for suckers, and that makes you angry.

Under her restlessness and licentious pose is a repressed wholesomeness that will always make her regret devaluing herself, which, even in these strange times, he believes is true of more people than not.

I'd been slowly robbed of my sense that I lived in a culture that still valued reason above unreason, civility above rote invective, which had once been the case.

we're not living in an age of truth and grace.

We were very different people outwardly but we shared the same core values and beliefs.