Quotes About Values

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.

Nilai cela sering dianggap sebagai kemasyhuran.

Society ends up with the adults it deserves. It's just a little more obvious nowadays.

The people of Minnesota value a politician who believes what he says and says what he believes and votes that way.

If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we want to live by — rather than merely of how we want things to look.

We want our buildings to speak to us of whatever we find important and need to be reminded of.

The more closely we analyse what we consider 'sexy', the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence. The

Any object of design will give off an impression of the psychological and moral attitudes it supports.

love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another country, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.

The point of marriage is to be usefully unpleasant – at least at crucial times. Together we embrace a set of limitations on one kind of freedom, the freedom to run away, so as to protect and strengthen another kind, the shared ability to mature and create something of lasting value, the pains of which are aligned to our better selves.

falsifications may occasionally need to be committed in the service of a goal higher still than accuracy:

Odio i belli, non hanno fatto niente per meritarlo, è la società ad avere stabilito che lo sono. Pensate se al mondo fossero i brutti a essere giudicati belli, se quelli come noi fossero considerati degli adoni! La bellezza è un valore, e i valori hanno soltanto la forza che gli attribuiamo.

My mother used to say, Delia if sex ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.