Quotes About Values

My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.

A system of morality tells us what to do and what not to do, but it cannot tell us what we should feel. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated.

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.

Her father was outraged. "Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself?

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do? Remember

His philosophy of life had changed as he got older—he believed now in marriage, constancy, and no birth control.

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors

Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen

B?rbaÅ£ii ÅŸi femeile sînt diferiÅ£i. Nu sînt mai buni sau mai r?i — ci diferiÅ£i. Singurul lucru pe care îl au în comun este faptul c? aparÅ£in aceleiaÅŸi specii. Ei tr?iesc în lumi diferite, cu valori diferite ÅŸi conform unor reguli diferite. Toat? lumea ÅŸtie asta, dar foarte puÅ£ini oameni, ÅŸi mai ales foarte puÅ£ini b?rbaÅ£i, sînt dispuÅŸi s-o recunoasc?. Acesta e totuÅŸi adev?rul.

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Of all the basic human values, surely freedom is the most basic and most important? Who could conceive of anything as stupid as giving away this priceless gift in order to be enslaved to a drug that doesn't even get you high?

If anybody wants a statement of values - it is this, that I am ready to die for poetry and for the truth that inspires poetry - and will do so in any case - as all men, wether they like it or not-.

It is possible to compromise in certain areas when choosing a partner for life, but never on a cravat.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.

One must keep a close eye on the current definitions. To be unpatriotic would be terrible. To be patriotic in the wrong way could be fatal.

History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man's right and another's. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

Principles are like clothes,' said Vick, straightening her jacket. 'You have to change them to suit the audience.

In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.

La principal lealtad de un hombre es la que tiene para consigo mismo

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.