Quotes About Values

Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.

If one only aspires to provide a growing number of persons with a growing number of goods, without worrying about the quality of the persons, or of the goods, then capitalism is the perfect solution.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Adapting to the modern world demands the hardening of one's sensibility and the debasing of one's character.

To refute the new morality, all one needs to do is examine the faces of its aged devotees.

Probablemente en otras épocas abundaron las porquerías tanto como en la nuestra, pero en ninguna tuvieron los discursos que las justifican y alaban popularidad semejante.

Civilizations are not made "avec des idées" but with good manners.

We disapprove of capitalism not because it promotes inequality, but because it favors the rise of inferior human types.

La norma ética nos prohíbe ver a los hombres como medios y al Hombre como fin.

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

Modern souls do not even become corrupted; they become rusty.

When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties

La violencia no basta para destruir una civilización. Cada civilización muere de la indiferencia ante los valores peculiares que la fundan.

Life" has so obviously become the highest goal of the modern world that whoever lives for something else — even if it's eating — arouses our sympathy.

Today's conservatives are nothing more than liberals who have been ill-treated by democracy

Authority is not delegating men, but procuring values.

Civilization is what is born when the soul does not surrender to its congenital vulgarity.

Vulgarity consists as much in disrespecting what deserves respect as in respecting what does not deserve it.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

Despite what is taught today, easy sex does not solve every problem. Sex does not solve even sexual problems.

This century has succeeded in turning sex into a trivial activity and an odious topic.

The cultural standard of an intelligent people sinks as its standard of living rises.