Quotes About Values

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: A society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction.

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.

People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

The bad may have money, power, and fame, but they do not have friends (though they may well have sycophants).

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: a society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction. In our time, this connection between honoring parents and maintaining civilization is not widely recognized.

While shared values aren't sufficient for friendship, friendship is impossible without shared values. In fact, one reason people are hurt by those they had considered friends is that friends are too often chosen without attention to their values.

I have a simple rule that is of great value in identifying whom to trust: Do not choose friends on the basis of personality, 'chemistry,' or enjoyment alone. Know their character (i.e. their values and whether they act on those values) before you trust them.

Every day we need to decide what kind of legacy we want to leave. What kind of children do we want to raise? And what kind of relationship do we need to build with them?

respect for your elders was one of the cornerstones of civilized behavior

While Fergus was possessed of dark good looks and a dashing manner that might well win a young girl's heart, he lacked a few of the things that might appeal somewhat more to conservative Scottish parents, such as property, income, a left hand, and a last name.

What sort of mother talks about whores on her deathbed? Your mother wouldn't do that, would she? I have no idea," Grey said, "The situation has fortunately not arisen.

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy, dubious as its moral underpinning might be

about things. And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman

I'm incredibly close to my family and I think family is such an important thing, in Asian culture especially.

Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.

I don't want to do too many films because I don't aspire to buy huge cars or build bungalows.

I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Most conservative atheists I know, including myself, have a really healthy respect for the role of religion in society and this country, in particularly.

I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes lose that perspective.