Quotes About Values

The Gita itself values subjectivity: after concluding his counsel, Krishna tells Arjuna to reflect on what has been said, and then do as he feels (yatha-ichasi-tatha-kuru). Even

The war is not for you, Arjuna, but for civilized human conduct. Remember,

Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger.

Much of what passes for gratitude today appears to be a sort of secular prosperity gospel.

When I get a little money I buy books," he confessed to a friend. "If any is left, I buy food and clothes."13

Even in some industrialized nations, time is viewed more as an estimate than an exact science. Brazilians, Spaniards, and Southeast Indians, for instance, don't value punctuality as highly as the Swiss, Germans or North Americans and have a pretty flexible idea of what's considered "on time.

In this convoluted world where sex has become a party favor rather than a solemn, beautiful part of love between two people, I think virginity is sexy. I don't like promiscuity. Oddly, at the turn of the 20th century, even men were expected to wait until marriage to indulge. I think that's sexy, too. Okay, I'm a dinosaur, I admit it. I don't belong in the modern world.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Organized religion was not important to him, he said. It was more important how people behaved in their daily lives than what they did on Sunday.

I used to wish I look like her, awful pretty. But if that prettiness comes with being stupid, I don't want it.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. Earl

She learned a long time ago people were driven by what they thought about the most. Whatever surfaced each morning when they opened their eyes ruled their hearts. Good. Evil. Love. Hate. Benevolence. Sex. Greed.   

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —