Quotes About Values

Don't let people talk you into compromising, lowering your standards. They may not approve you, but God approves you. He's the one that matters.

The problem, Sasha, is not what a person believes in. Verenthane, pagan, Lisan Skyworship, the Kazeri desert mystics – it's all the same, all have the potential to be equally good or bad. The problem is not what things are believed, the problem is how people choose to believe them.

Perfection of the system is not a prerequisite for loyalty," Ramoja said sharply. "If it were, neither of us would choose the jobs we hold. If the system is flawed, then fixing it is merely another part of the job. Our loyalty comes from our commitment to the values that underpin the system, not the system itself.

There are always those prepared to sacrifice civilised principles for personal gain,

being psychologically incapable of understanding the concept of moral problems,

When she smoothed my shirt and stepped back, I said, 'Mama, why do you always look at me like I'm dressed in a fancy suit?' She said, 'Because I see your soul, Leland Keller. Your soul is as a spick- and- span and sharp as a man in his church suit. That's what's important in life. Make sure your soul is dressed right, always in its church clothes. That's the only thing that matters to God' ...

Samtidigt kan liberaliseringen av uppfostran slå över i rädsla för att lära ut normer, regler och begrepp som rätt och fel. Detta kan också vara destruktivt, även för den mentala utvecklingen, då det inte finns något för barnen att upptäcka, ingen moral att utforska och förstå.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can accept or reject as we wish, it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

You've got to pull yourself out of the materialistic environments—the environments that are reinforcing the materialistic values," he says, because they cripple your internal satisfactions. And then, he says, to make that sustainable, you have to "replace them with actions that are going to provide those intrinsic satisfactions, [and] encourage those intrinsic goals.

It occurred to me as I walked up and down those Lisbon streets that we all—the vast majority of drug warriors, and the vast majority of legalizers—have a set of shared values. We all want to protect children from drugs. We all want to keep people from dying as a result of drug use. We all want to reduce addiction. And now the evidence strongly suggests that when we move beyond the drug war, we will be able to achieve those shared goals with much greater success.

Toda la lógica de nuestra cultura conspira para que se quede en la rueda consumista, que salga a comprar cuando se sienta mal, que persiga valores de usar y tirar.

And if the standards of the culture were wrong then, I realized, they can be wrong now. You can have everything a person could possibly need by the standards of our culture - but those standards can badly misjudge what a human actually needs in order to have a good or even a tolerable life.

We are not imprisoned in the values that have been making us feel so lousy for so long. By coming together with what really matters, we can begin to dig a tunnel back to meaningful values.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

It matters not how long we live but how.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.