Quotes About Values

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

The experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us."11

What's right and what's true are different.

Google, says its CEO, is more than a mere business; it is a "moral force.

Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values

universal features shared by all musics. The very word 'universal' should put us on our guard: as the postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha says, 'universalism…masks ethnocentric norms, values, and interests'.

Why do foreigners always ask about clothing?" one woman doctor asked. "Why does it matter so much what we wear? Of all the issues in the world, is that really so important?" Another said: "You think we're victims, because we cover our hair and wear modest clothing. But we think that it's Western women who are repressed, because they have to show their bodies—even go through surgery to change their bodies—to please men.

Americans used to extol good-hearted Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor, and now we've stepped into the shoes of the Sheriff of Nottingham. When as a society we shrug at 30 million children living in low-income families in America, slashing their benefits while urging them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, we need to look in the mirror and have a good talk with ourselves.

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

It is not possible, says Weber, to confer the objective validity of facts on the basis of a value-judgement; and second, it is not possible to judge the value of values through the use of scientific reason. This leads him to maintain a distinction between science and ethics, the former dealing with questions of fact, the latter with questions of value.

With the rise of modern scientific (or 'rational') knowledge religion is, for the first time, challenged by the disparate claims of other life-orders (Lebensordnungen)... a polytheistic and disordered world of competing values and ideals... the economic, political, aesthetic, erotic and intellectual, which, with the onset of modernity, separate out into relatively autonomous realms (the process of Eigengeseztlichkeit) with their own value-spheres (Wertsphären).

The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.

The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').

Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.

With the 'death' of God worldly values proliferate, separate out and are drawn into endless conflict with one another. This process leads to the formation of a world torn by an infinite number of value-conflicts, for 'rational' (scientific) knowledge, which, for Weber, is limited to questions of fact rather than value, is unable to resolve the crisis of values that it itself inaugurated.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats.

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Apart from the principles of the Bible, you cannot be the man, the husband, and the father you may be.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.