Quotes About Values

If it happens, the fall of liberal democracy in our own time will not look as it did in the 1920s or 1930s. But it will still require a new elite, a new generation of clercs, to bring it about. The collapse of an idea of the West, or of what is sometimes called "the Western liberal order," will need thinkers, intellectuals, journalists, bloggers, writers, and artists to undermine our current values, and then to imagine the new system to come.

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

What is a culture? A culture is what approves or disapproves of the actions in its midst. Yet how rare for approval to be unanimous.

To abolish seduction is a mother's goal. She will replace it with what is real - products.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

He has trumpeted Russian moral superiority over Western individualism, degradation, and duplicity

Really, nobody worth anything gives tuppence about my background. Oh, some might whisper about it behind my back, but how does that hurt me? It's who you are and what you do and say that's important, not where you come from. Are you listening to me, gel?

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Annette liebt über alles diese Großmutter, die reich ist nicht an Gütern und gebildet nicht an Lektüren.

This crisis had forced me to confront what was most important to me, rather than what I was conditioned to want, or perhaps what I had conditioned myself to want.

Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community's values.

This world is full of forms that are illusory, and the values are all wrong, the proportions are out of focus. The things which a man of the world thinks valuable, a spiritual man must cast aside as worthless.

Thought creates character.

what you value and what someone else values will be different. And your goals and values will inform your preferences for various outcomes. That means that how much you prefer a particular outcome relative to other possibilities will naturally be different from another person's preference for the same outcome relative to other possibilities.

Adults ask children, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" We don't ask, "What job do you want?" We are asking who they will be, not what they will do. This is a difference with quite a large distinction.

Como toda lengua, esa también jerarquizaba, estigmatizaba, a los vagos, a las mujeres casquivanas, a los «sátiros» y los malvados, a los niños malcriados, alababa a las

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

There are values embedded in the technology we use, and as we scroll and tap we often unthinkingly adopt these priorities as our own.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

It all went to hell when attacking what we hate became more important than defending what we love.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.