Quotes About Values

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.

What is a gentleman, anyway? He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper.

Even forty years ago we had good men in politics, but we, we are brought up to pile up a million and show what we are made of. Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.

the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses

But for a girl I think she ought to have lots of minor accomplishments and pass them on to her children.

The values are changing utterly with each lesion of vitality; it has begun to appear that we can learn nothing from the past with which to face the future – so we cease to be impulsive, convincible men, interested in what is ethically true by fine margins, we substitute rules of conduct for ideas of integrity, we value safety above romance, we become, quite unconsciously, pragmatic.

Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools.

Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

There's nothing I'd violate certain principles for. But how do you know when you're violating them? You have to guess at things just like most people do. You have to apportion the values when you look back. You finish up the portrait then—paint in the details and shadows.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. ... Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes

For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

Até hoje evito cometer grandes equívocos lembrando, como meu pai orgulhosamente sugeriu e eu orgulhosamente repito, que o senso fundamental de decência é distribuído de forma desigual no nascimento. E, após gabar-me assim da minha tolerância, devo confessar que ela tem limites. Um comportamento pode ser edificado na pedra ou nos pântanos mais lamacentos, mas a partir de certo ponto eu não me importo mais.

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

His motto: "Screw the little people." He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.

There is a larger critique of markets, though, that goes beyond economics. Market-centric thinking has invaded every area of human life, leaving little space for other values like fairness, equality, or intrinsic value.

Tratas de transmitirle a tu hijo unos valores, unas convicciones, y luego compruebas que cuanto le dices no le interesa nada, que está a otra cosa y que, en consecuencia, todo aquello en lo que creías morirá contigo o incluso antes que tú.

What once was moral is now, for us, aesthetic … What was social is now individual

Nothing grates more on me than the vocabulary of moral intent and social responsibility.

What used to be moral is aesthetic for us. What was social is now individual.

O prazer é para os cães, o bem-estar material é para os escravos; o homem tem a honra e o domínio.