Quotes About Values

sólo intentaba hacer bien lo que le parecía bien hacer,

Il Re deve stare al gioco: non stipendia forse il Matto apposta per farsi contraddire e canzonare? È antica e saggia usanza nelle corti che il Matto o Giullare o Poeta eserciti la sua funzione di capovolgere e deridere i valori sui quali il sovrano basa il proprio dominio, e gli dimostri che ogni linea diritta nasconde un rovescio storto, ogni prodotto finito uno sconquasso di pezzi che non combaciano, ogni discorso filato un bla-bla-bla.

If you do ever decide to go on testosterone, build yourself into a good man. The last thing the world needs is another misogynist prick.

Os valores institucionalizados que a escola inculca são valores quantificados. A escola inicia os jovens num mundo onde tudo pode ser medido, inclusive a imaginação e o próprio homem. Mas o crescimento pessoal não é coisa mensurável.

P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.

To many people today, however, rights are something to protect us against the demands of morality.

morality would be undermined without a belief in divine judgment, but

A secular person treats as the Highest Standard something that isn't the Highest Standard.

Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair." "Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair--say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"--and see how seriously people take you.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.