Quotes About Values

A man who wants to beat my face in because he wants to be the best in the world, that makes sense. But a boy, a child who runs his mouth for likes and views and jumps on a side that he has no information on, no idea about, it's kind of sad to me. So I don't respect that at all.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I'd rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

Some bitcoin users see the hard fork as in some ways violating their most fundamental values. I personally think these fundamental values, pushed to such extremes, are silly.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

We know that we can defeat Islamist terrorism without violating our ideals; indeed, we must. These ideals, these American ideals.

My faith sometimes burdens me with the responsibility to think very deeply and long and hard about the choices I make creatively. There are projects I turn down because the material is too much a violation of what I believe. But that's true of anybody.

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact.

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

I am urging Americans to be more careful about the kinds of media we support with our consumer spending. We've got to invest less in the media that glorifies violence and more in entertainment that lifts up the values of love, compassion, and the best in human nature.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.