Quotes About Values

What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

Only ideals are dangerous.

Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.

This book is my response to these developments: It is an appreciation of the flourishing that was the humanistic treasure of the modern era. It is also a plea to restore what has been lost and not to reject out of hand the modern values that inspired the broad prosperity of modern societies.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

Samfélagið hvílir á fjórum stöplum, hugsaði hann: fáfræði, leti, ranglæti og asnaskap.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

I shall never sacrifice a friend to an ideal. I shall never desert a friend to save an institution. I shall never betray a friend for the sake of the law. Great nations may fall in ruin before I shall sell a friend to preserve them. I pray to the God within me to give me the power to live by this design.

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought.

WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.

The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add yo our stock of information, or a few new maxims to extend our list of dos and don'ts, but embodies a picture of the world and/or a set of values.

The best philosophy doesn't just come up with a few new facts that we can simply add to our stock of information, or a few new maxims to extend our list of dos and don'ts, but embodies a picture of the world and/or a set of values.