Quotes About Values

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

I like a family guy. He must be fun, must like to go out, and has to respect his mom... my family is very important, so it should be likewise for him.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

As I took in the scene, I smiled softly. Family and friends—that's what mattered most. Money made a difference, yes, but it couldn't buy back a life.

A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

Hükümet (veya insanl?k) idam cezas?na izin vermiyor ama milyonlarca kiÅŸinin her gün yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ öldürülmesine göz yumuyor. Bir insan? öldürmek -yani yaÅŸam?ndan 50 y?l almak- suç ama tüm insanlar?n yaÅŸamlar?ndan 50.000.000 y?l? çekip almak suç deÄŸil!

Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.

Your wealth will increase, your values will increase, your projection will increase, if you simply love to live, just love yourself and live yourself.

We see today on the streets in big cities in America defacing all monuments, defacing American history, disregard for American history, you disregard your past, you basically forsake your future because the only responsible way to confront the future, to advance in the future is by relying on, by studying your past, and American past and core element has been Judeo-Christian values.

Recognizing that the reasoning individual is far more likely to be carried away by some worthless passing fashion than he is to discover a new and valuable truth, they prefer to uphold ideas and behaviors that have been tested for generations and have stood their ground. And where they introduce alterations, they do so according to the method of constructive reasoning.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.

And at the time it had not been the flames against which they fought, but against human relationships, against loves and hatreds, against reason, against property. At the time, like the crew of a wrecked ship, they had found themselves in a situation where it was permissible to kill one person in order that another might live.

Perché siamo giunti a una società del genere? Perché viviamo in un'era in cui tutto ciò che era puro è stato contaminato?

A más cultura, peor visión sexual.

Yo siempre me había sentido orgullosa de mi moral y empecé a pensar que todo aquello que rodeaba al sexo no hacía más que embrutecer y empequeñecer a los seres humanos.

Cómo soportar una época que ha manchado todo lo que en otros tiempos era sagrado?

Why, why?" he thought, gritting his teeth. "Why are people not allowed to do what is most beautiful, when ugly, shoddy acts, acts for the sake of gain, are all freely allowed?