Quotes About Values

Christianity, like most religious traditions of any vintage, is inherently conservative.

You can tell a man's character from his choices

Here we have this extraordinary situation, not unknown today, where people talk about the next world and state their beliefs but in practice they live entirely for this one.

faith, hope and love are the three main virtues in life.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

At the bottom of all the political pontificating is a simple question: Will we be the city upon the hill or a nation of tribalistic assholes?

I will stipulate to having both French sea salt and a big bottle of extra virgin in my kitchen. And while the presence of both might go some small distance in pigeonholing me demographically, neither one of them makes me a good person. They are mute and useless indicators of the content of my character.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Even today, LEGO continues to embrace one of founder Ole Kirk Christiansen's core values: to never let war seem like child's play.

Once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake. —J. R. Ewing

in California everyone wants to know what kind of car you drive. In the South it's which church you attend. And here it's what kind of dog you have.

There were larger reasons for Walter Whitman's travails. He was a blunt-spoken worker accustomed to honest self-sufficiency in a time when the market was calling for new traits: slickness and self-promotion, with more than a dash of craft. He might love cattle, children, and living under his own roof, but what he needed in the new environment was an eye for the deal.

Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.'

Westerners become confused because they approach Russia with a Western frame of reference, not realizing that Russia is a universe based on a completely different set of values.

I keep a box in which I store his artwork and writings, like his response to an assignment in which he has been asked if you should always try your best. "I don't think you should always try your best all the time," he writes, "because, let's say a drug atick asks you for drugs you should not try your best to find him some drugs." Another assignment that goes into the box is

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

A man got to have a code. --The Wire

Contrary to popular belief being rich (and having a lot of money) doesn't automatically mean you have class.

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

To me, the real challenge is the human mind, which is driving our actions: our beliefs and values shape the way we see the world, which in turn determines how we will treat it. So long as we assume that we are the centre of the universe and everything revolves around us, we will not be able to see the dangers we create. To see those, we have to recognize that our very lives and our well-being depend on the richness of nature.

The way we live has less to do with individual choices and more to do with the general bent of our society than many of us realize. We forget that we don't need everything.

En la primera mitad de la vida lo que más importa es la apariencia externa, pero cuando entramos en la segunda sólo nos mantienen los cimientos, los pilares ocultos donde se sienta la estructura de nuestra personalidad.

Amigos nada más, el resto es selva. Caí en la cuenta de que la gente más valiosa en mi vida es la que me ha empujado a fabricar unos ideales, puede que ficticios, pero tan hermosos que da gusto jugar a que existen, apostar por ellos