Quotes About Values

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

contrary to some opinions, it is better to be a dead hero than a live louse. Dying is messy and inconvenient but even a louse dies someday no matter what he will do to stay alive and he is forever having to explain his choice.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees.

Captain, that's not your style; you don't want to make money, you simply want to have money—in order to spend it.

Oh, I'm not offended. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stinkin' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. Call me Jubal.

Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.

I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

Young man, can you restore my eyesight?" "Sir? Why, no, sir!" "You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue—social responsibility—into a person who doesn't have it, doesn't want it, and resents having the burden thrust on him.

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

most things are right or wrong only in their backgrounds; few things are good or evil in themselves.

As for the second notion, the idea that we could lose our freedom by succumbing to a wave of religious hysteria, I am sorry to say that I consider it possible. I hope that it is not probable. But there is a latent deep strain of religious fanaticism in this our culture; it is rooted in our history

Having been born to wealth, stealing doesn't fret me as much as it does him.

Correct morals arise from knowing what Man is—not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Ahlakç? dediÄŸin kendi k?staslar?n? evrensel kanunlar zanneden kiÅŸidir. Sen bu yayg?n kötülükten neredeyse tümüyle uzaks?n.

I could not live at home until it was all paid because I had to keep my job to meet those monthly payments. For what, then? Not for sex. As I told Captain Torrney, sex is everywhere; it's silly to pay for it. For the privilege of getting my hands into soapy dishwater, I guess. For the privilege of rolling around on the floor and being peed on by puppies and babies only nominally housebroken.

Surely where a man lives is the least important thing about him.

If you're going to be businessmen, don't confuse the vocation with larceny.

but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.