Quotes About Values

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.

We must be courageous yet humble and do what is right not what will make you popular,

Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.

It's not that we are poor because we are uneducated, unemployed nor unqualified, we just have have a buying mentality instead of a selling mentality

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Politics is downstream from culture.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics