Quotes About Values

I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.

Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

Everything goes. But the one thing that separates human beings from animals is a nobility of spirit, a sense of self-worth. I have ideals. I think they're what holds civilization together, and that if you cheapen yourself with careless encounters, you lose sight of things that truly matter.

More often than not, a woman marries for money and a man marries for sex. What difference does a sheet of paper with signatures make? If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer, she said simply.

Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts?

where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." A good place to start, but I am afraid it is seldom that simple. The black-and-white is easy; the tough choices are gray.

So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the crisis of the West.

The progressives and socialists advanced their own dream in opposition to the American dream.

The Genealogy of Morals

We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through

Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion "must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.

The talents of these individuals were more highly motivated by a desire to learn, as opposed to a desire to earn. Which is what you find in your society at this point in time, as you define it.

The experience of the 1930s shows that it is not in ceding to the demands of one's enemies, and seeking compromise, that democracy has a chance to save itself, but rather in affirming its values and being ready to fight to defend them

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word identity has reached an end.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

Many things that were anchored to the balance of power and the balance of terror seem to be undone, unstuck. Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values.

Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values.