Quotes About Values

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.

Morrie: And the biggest one of those values, Mitch? Mitch: Yes? Morrie: Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Ottoman Empire. "The West," writes Huntington, "won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."29

The less affluent must be able, at least in theory, to catch up with the more affluent. Hence politics remains without substance, a realm from which the crucial dimensions of life, the core values, are excluded.42 Who, then, can criticize this situation?

Department stores, hotels, and amusement parks began to dot the landscape, and by World War I, buying was seen as the road to happiness. Money became the measure of everything, friendship and religion included.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

Baganda girls will zoom your profile pic Just to see if you have money in your pockets.

Church need 40M to buy the pastor a car, They call for fundraising. Church needs 200 Millions for a member kidney transplant. They call for a prayer. Who bewitched Africans!

Gone are the days when basic needs were food, shelter and clothing. Money replaced everything.

You find a village without pit latrines, But when a person dies, folks dig the grave in 3 minutes. Let's talk!

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

When I look at the world, I see that many people build big beautiful houses but live in broken homes. We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

To Javed- My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Principles are easy to have when you have a place to live and regular meals.

Society is ruled by the harsh maxim: "production for the sake of production." The decline from craftsman to worker, from an active to an increasingly passive personality, is completed by man qua consumer—an economic entity whose tastes, values, thoughts and sensibilities are engineered by bureaucratic "teams" in "think tanks." Man, standardized by machines, is reduced to a machine.

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.

Association with a learned one in the slums, is by far better than sitting with an ignorant person on sumptuous and luxurious carpets.

Love is non-conformism in the world of economics.