Quotes About Values

a decir verdad, algunos seguidores de esos movimientos parecían incluso tomar sistemáticamente partido por los animales en contra del hombre, sentir más congoja ante el anuncio de la desaparición de una especie de invertebrados que ante el de una hambruna que diezmara la población de un continente. Hoy

Zoals het mooie Franse woord 'ménage' aangeeft, dat zowel 'huishouden' als 'zuinigheid' betekent, vertegenwoordigden het echtpaar en het gezin het laatste eilandje van primitief collectivisme binnen de liberale samenleving. De seksuele bevrijding leidde tot de vernietiging van die tussengemeenschappen, de laatste buffers tussen het individu en de markt. Dat vernietigingsproces gaat ook nu nog onverminderd door.

Aceptar la ideología del cambio continuo es aceptar que la vida de un hombre se reduzca estrictamente a su existencia individual, y que las generaciones pasadas y futuras ya no tengan ninguna importancia para él. Así vivimos, y actualmente tener un hijo ya no tiene sentido para un hombre

What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn't say, what one does and doesn't do, what one thinks and doesn't think.

Children raised by the Spiritually Healthy parent often grow up knowing God, loving others, living a life of meaning, and recognizing that this world is not their ultimate home.

Our goal as parents should be to endeavor to pass down our faith to the next generation in such a way that they will be able to pass down their faith to the following generation in our absence.

Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books , of course.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots.

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up by their parents: not goody two-shoes - God knows we weren't - but there was a level of civility that the lads in the band were aware of, what is over the brink of decency.

World War I was the final straw. Youth turned on their elders for making a hash of the world. Older men's values had produced a cataclysm, and young men had paid with their lives. "The older generation has certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us," wrote a young man in the Atlantic Monthly of September 1920, expressing the prevailing sentiment. How could the younger generation, the idea went, possibly do any worse?

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

No metáis en la cabeza lo que os quepa en el bolsillo! ¡No metáis en el bolsillo lo que os quepa en la cabeza!" "No ye may thrust your head in what I fit in your pocket! No ye may thrust in his pocket that you fit on the head!" "Cebinize s??an? kafan?za sokmay?n! Kafan?za s??an? cebinize t?kmay?n!

And what is the right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values-- emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.