Quotes About Values

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Mitt Romney

When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.

Success on Wall Street was getting the most money. Success for us was having the best life.

innate censors and motivators exist in the brain that deeply and unconsciously affect our ethical premises; from these roots, morality evolved as instinct. If that perception is correct, science may soon be in a position to investigate the very origin and meaning of human values, from which all ethical pronouncements and much of political practice flow.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

CUANDO EL ENCANTO DESAPARECE, SOLO LE QUEDA EL CARÁCTER

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

A cheap-minded stays cheap, even after having a high position.

A thought that carries filth; indeed, incites and excites lecherous character and conduct; conversely, thought that holds decency; certainly, executes and displays dignity and moral values of life.

After jumping out of your ego, you liberate your own, and you see the way towards the values of others.

All such educational degrees stay unqualified and ill-quality if those degrees do not teach and constitute discipline and humanity.

Being gay not only violates natural morals and values; however, it also holds in contempt of that; indeed, it characterizes as the opposite of natural beauty, as lacking in physical coordination. Accordingly, the lust of sex cannot beautify life without natural-matching.

Collapse and fall of moral, start from lies.

Each one is an invalid or valid sign of its parents, who compromised that and signed for such work of love, whether wrong or right in a legal and religious context.

Every journey follows the traffic rules like red, yellow, and green signals and various signs; similarly, the life journey adopts discipline, honesty, neutrality, and moral values; otherwise, against that appears a violation and risks consequences.