Quotes About Values

I feel sorry for young people today who feel so alone that they have to mate with their first crush. It shocks me that so many young brides are pregnant at the alter. When you have kids late in life, you appreciate them more. They keep you young, and you see the world through better eyes. You can give your children a finer sense of values, too, because if you're lucky, you own values have improved with time.

Bukan kegagalan uang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris

Un uomo, quando corteggia una ragazza, deve avere le stesse idee religiose di sua madre e quelle politiche di suo padre.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

What people accept as justification shows how they think and live.

Não existem patriotas em filas de hospitais.

His platform includes a prolife agenda, for instance, which "values the sanctity of every human soul," and also "believes in the greatness of the American family." The word family, on his glossy-but-down-home webpage in its hues of red, white and blue, is a code for you, where you also means right, deserving, genuine and better than those others, you know, the ones who aren't you.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Among the innumerable books on Addy's shelves was one by Ernest Hemingway in which I found these words: 'What is moral is what you feel good after. What is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Il modo in cui ci comportiamo con gli altri, anche nelle cose più piccole, è una misura del nostro valore come esseri umani.

Money is not the secret to happiness

tik?kite kaip norite, tai j?s? asmeninis reikalas, ta?iau priesak? laikykit?s, elkit?s kaip ir dera. Beje, norint elgtis kaip dera, netgi neb?tina b?ti krikš?ionimi. Galima b?ti netgi niekuo. Paskutiniu agnostiku, besparniu ateistu.

Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.

I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

mas a avareza é apenas a exageração de uma virtude e as virtudes devem ser como os orçamentos: melhor é o saldo que o deficit.

Our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way.

Was Louis mean? He had always seemed the very spirit of generosity. When he had hardly sixpence left he would spend the coins he had on a bunch of violets. She couldn't bear to think of Louis as mean. Anything else but that.

Martha C. Nussbaum's manifesto Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?