Quotes About Values

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

Why do we insist of depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Consensus: "The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

The facts of life are conservative.

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

I have worked with women religious for more than twenty-five years. Shortly after the publication of Leadership and the New Science, a colleague gave me great advice. He said that if I was interested in organizations that worked from a strong sense of values, then I should be working with the military and nuns.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I require a hierarchy of priorities after protecting Shira and Malkah and the small felines.

Edith's mother used to say, 'An immaculate home is a sign of a misspent life.

Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but from the ways of knowing and being that characterize one's own immediate family and community.

It is up to us to choose what is right. No one can make us eat a lie," she answers.

What school worries about the kind of civilization the children are forced to live in? The only thing officialdom is bothered about is whether or not the syllabus has been followed.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Religion is the bulwark of civilization. A people who believe nothing and therefore fear nothing will create anarchy, for themselves and others.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their home.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on