Quotes About Values

That's not a bad word... hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. MARGARET YOUNG

In this moment the U.S. state has made family values a means of policing the exercise largely (but not solely) of female desire, as well as a way to establish the state's moral right to influence and even direct the private sphere.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20).

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.

I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou. I tried to give him a code to live by. He wanted not one scrap of it, he didn't agree with a single value that I held.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values--inexperienceable--which we serve.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.

We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

la ambición desmedida reivindica que "el fin justifica los medios" y obviamente, suele apartarse de la honestidad y el juego limpio. No hay que ganar a cualquier costo, no todo vale.

Con el amor pasional no basta. Se necesita un amor que además de murciélagos en el estómago, sea justo, ético y digno, porque el amor sentimental -per se- no conlleva estas virtudes.

Estas personas tienen claro que el fin no justifica los medios y que no se debe ser esclavo de un sistema que te estruja para que sobresalgas del resto y acaricies la tan ansiada "perfección psicológica

La prudencia es la carta de presentación de las personas tipo C. Ellas se vanaglorian de poseer el valor de la discreción en grado superlativo. Dicen exactamente lo que los demás esperan que digan, y se comportan como se espera que lo hagan. Hacen gala de una diplomacia digna de los mejores embajadores.

Por más querido, amable, cordial y ecuánime que sea un sujeto, si en una reunión del Opus Dei apoya públicamente las relaciones prematrimoniales, perderá de inmediato el "don de gentes", además de sus credenciales. Entonces, como los humanos somos susceptibles de ofendernos con facilidad, al menos en cuestiones de principios, la honestidad comunicativa creará incomodidad, así se utilice en pequeñas dosis.