Quotes About Values

I certainly prefer buying new rose-trees to new dresses, if I cannot comfortably have both; and I see a time coming when the passion for my garden will have taken such a hold on me that I shall not only entirely cease buying more clothes, but begin to sell those that I already have.

Everything we stand for can be expressed in terms of how we spend our money.

What kind of people are we? What are our shared values? Many congressional Republicans think it's fine to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to giant oil companies and corporations that park their money overseas, even as medical research budgets are hit by another round of cuts and care centers have long waiting lists. But those spending choices don't reflect the values of the American people.

we also need to understand how and why our country has gone so thoroughly wrong. We need a plan to put us back on track—and then we need to get to work and make it happen. We need to live our values, to be the kind of nation that invests in opportunity, not just for some of us, but for all of us. We need to take our democracy back from those who would pervert it for their own benefit. We need to build the America of our best dreams.

We need to live our values, to be the kind of nation that invests in opportunity, not just for some of us, but for all of us.

What you do and what you are is what matters.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Constant complaints that Muslim communities are not 'integrating' properly into Western values and ways of life shade into the idea that they are permanently 'outsiders' in relation to the West. Again, the huge variation in the secularization and 'Westernization' among younger generations of Muslims is simply swept away.

More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. Bernice

My father told me that if a man is the head of the house, the woman is its heart. And a man without a heart is no more than a corpse.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty to Truth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and country are as nothing to that?

Food simply isn't important to me.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".

Japanese children were taught a code in school. It had three laws: (a) Do not be a burden to others; (b) Take care of others; (c) Do not expect rewards for your goodness.

What, exactly, would you give up?