Quotes About Values

After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education. Oh, that's right. You totally can.

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money!

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!

My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

The untrue things don't deserve to be respected!

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the precious values!

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

I think I'd rather be beautiful. Beautiful makes evolving into any sort of a person with morals and character very difficult.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

Yes, I did," he says casually. "In the first minute I met them. Then in the second minute, I decided I wasn't going to be into dudes who treat others like crap only because they can. And then in the third, I actually stopped noticing they were around. I'm easily bored around stupid people.

Sluts and losers are tolerable to my friends. But a person with a social conscience is from Pluto.

I get all the criticism about religion, you know, Mr. Ortley. But the thing is, you can't take it away from people and not leave something else of substance. That's what your generation will be remembered for. Taking so much away and replacing it with so little of worth.