Quotes About Values

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Así, aceptar la falibilidad del conocimiento, confrontarse con la duda, convivir con el error no significa abrazar el irracionalismo y la arbitrariedad. Significa, por el contrario, en nombre del pluralismo, ejercitar el derecho a la crítica y sentir la necesidad de dialogar también con quien lucha por valores diferentes de los nuestros.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.

Some middle class men prove they're men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships. Some upper class men prove they're men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls. Nasty.

She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion more than they need anything else—even people like Zahra and Harry.

A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon.

It would be better even that a great people should be destroyed than that the whole race should be thrown into turmoil.

They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

I… chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Maddiyata düÅŸkün olanlar duygusal olarak daha güvensiz, daha düzeysiz kiÅŸisel iliÅŸkilere sahip, daha içtenliksiz, özerklik duygusu daha eksik, kendine güveni daha düÅŸük kimselerdir. Çocuk iseler, kendilerini baÅŸar?lar?na baÄŸl? olarak seven, onlar? maddiyatç? yetiÅŸtiren ana-babalar? vard?r.

There are only three words you need to live by, son: respect, consideration and tolerance.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Without a moral center -- there can be no string family. And without family, we one and all suffer.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.