Quotes About Values

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think.

The EU gave both political support and quotidian substance to the values inherent in NATO—those values being, generally, the rule of law over arbitrary fiat, legal states over ethnic nations, and the protection of the individual no matter his race or religion. Democracy, after all, is less about elections than about impartial institutions.

The Truth At Any Cost Lowers All Other Costs

And that was when I came to realize that what is important is not what is true, but what people believe is true and what they're willing to do for that belief.

I hope you make those decisions because you feel they are the right thing to do, not because of peer pressure or because you're trying to fit in.

you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

There are five tell-tale signs of a social scare: (1) concern, (2) hostility, (3) consensus, (4) disproportion, and (5) volatility. First, there must be sufficient concern that the perceived threat poses a serious risk to traditional values and must be measurable. Statistics and opinion polls are often used to sound the alarm, but they are not always accurate.

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?

In this model, the change agent attempts to bring to light all values, working through conflicts embedded in the larger collective. The emphasis is on communication and cooperation with the change target. The technique is to involve the change target in an honest dialogue, while mutually learning the way to win-win solutions.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Mithorden: I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Cada guerra que ha estallado a partir de 1945 ha dado pie a una gran cantidad de legislación y a la creación de más grupos de derechos humanos para presionar al mundo sobre valores occidentales humanísticos

Often, the person reaches a point where there is a choice between two conflicting interests: reducing the emotional discomfort or seeing what is really going on. The person needs to make a value choice at this point. Which is more important to you, seeing reality or feeling okay? Almost always, the person chooses to see reality, and therefore, to let the emotional chips fall wherever they may.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life's course.

Robin was thinking, is this where single people end up, people without children to look out for them, without double incomes? In small boxes, living vicariously through reality stars?

The older Strike got, the more he'd come to believe that in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life's course.

But he knew no other way; it was part of a short but inflexible personal code of ethics that he had carried with him all his adult life: do the job and do it well.

Jasper always said, "Tory faithful likes bastards or buffoons", and that he was neither one nor the other.