Quotes About Values

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

He was aware now of many things—of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety as a thin veneer covering an iron core of simpler, more deterministic awareness. And that older core called out to him, pleaded with him for a return to cleaner values.

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

Che cosa disprezzi? È da questo che ti si conosce veramente.

A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.

Si siempre me comporto como es debido sin tener en cuenta lo que me cueste suprimir mis propios deseos, eso es lo único que quedará de mí.

Perverts don't perpetuate!

A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.

ViaÈ›a nu poate g?si motive care s? o susÈ›in?, nu poate fi o surs? de consideraÈ›ie decent? È™i reciproc?, decât dac? fiecare dintre noi este decis s?-i insufle aceste calit??i.

Values, my dear grandchild, depend for their acceptance upon their success.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

You start by allowing your own world to be corrupted by their warped values, and then you gradually start using their sadistic methods and eventually end up adopting bits of their sick ideology. And even then, when you have become just like them, they will eventually turn on you anyway. Normal people are savage beasts.

SkromnosÃ…Â¥ sa tradi?ne považovala za cnosÃ…Â¥ a z dobrých dôvodov. Musíme si svoju skromnosÃ…Â¥ chrániÃ…Â¥, pretože ona nás zasa chráni pred nami samými.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into.

It's not normal to meet somebody and then become wildly famous or become wildly rich and all these things. I don't, at the end of the day, think that those things matter.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.