Quotes About Values

An attitude of moral indifference has no connection with scientific "objectivity".

The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

The cult of beauty without social responsibility is a threat to civilization as we know it.

It doesn't matter who's right but what's right.

Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

I nijedno zlo ne može postati dobro, zato što ga prihvata ve?ina.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Contrary to popular belief, transformation cannot be based on a single event, advice, book, or seminar. These things may lead to a new insight or even a temporary change, however, real transformation requires the formation of new thinking patterns and behavioral habits. Transformation requires consistent action and time to reinforce new learned values and drop old ones. Once the process of transformation is completed, it will change who you are, your life and the lives of the people around you.

She said that the issues were no longer so important to her and it was life itself that counted most of all.

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.

But sometimes the way to get involved is to just live your life and be yourself with all your values intact.

No one ever told you that in moment of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.

No one told you that in moments of crisis, family was allowed to trump friendship.

But sometimes the way to get involved is to just live your life and be yourself with all your values intact. And by just being you, it'll happen. Maybe not in big ways, but it'll happen.

Unlike almost everyone he knew at college, Jonah was not particularly ambitious. When people inquired about his ambitions, he told them that his mother's non-acquisitive folksinger's values must have rubbed off on him, because he didn't feel the need to have his life figured out. But the truth was that he didn't want to deal with it.

Some people lusted after cars, which had never made sense to me. For me, bookshelves could inspire whole spontaneous sonnets, so maybe it was an each to her own scenario.

Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

This one says they'll place your 'little blessing in disguise' with a local 'Christ-oriented family.' What about the non-Christ-oriented families? Don't they deserve the right to adopt kids?

a Dios le importa menos lo que comes que cómo tratas a tus seres queridos

In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's

What is your definition of skank?' I ask. 'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.