Quotes About Values

In truth, much of human social life—our morality, our relationships—revolves around challenges posed by intertemporal choice.

Can it be that all of physics—and, indeed, all of science—is based on creating all the matter in the universe from a dozen objects with totally random mass values, while no one has the faintest idea about their origin?

Bad behavior is seen as something to be noticed, reported on, and analyzed, whereas people who do not lie and cheat are taken for granted.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. What is the West but a gigantic supermarket? And who really wants to die for a supermarket?

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.

Sincerity is the first casualty of capitalism. We

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

It is character, not numbers, that make the world go 'round.

While illusion (the momentary prices we pay for stocks) often loses touch with reality (the intrinsic values of our corporations), it is reality that rules in the long run.

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Virgil was not a man to take time to look at the stars, not when he might miss a nickel on the ground in the process.

After all, not doing bad things is not the same as doing good things, but that is why you and I will never become saints.

The Guardian might have represented many of the liberal values that Frend disdained, but he did not think it would be the first choice of journal for someone intent on torturing and killing a kidnap victim, even if it were only to be used as a prop.

A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg has put the point sharply: "With or without [religion], you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."120