Quotes About Values

Tolerance also requires a public acceptance of beliefs and values at odds with our own, beliefs and values that we may consider wrongheaded and even immoral. ... In this context, a morally passionate citizen becomes strangely intolerable.

In today's newspaper there was a story about a married clergyman with three children who is calling for all sex to be declared un-Christian. He says lifelong virginity is the ideal for Christians. I wonder, has he told his wife and children this?

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

The mere fact that some women are upset by the presence of pornography tells us very little. It tells us nothing about whether porn is right or wrong, valuable or useless. After all, feminism distresses a great many people. Yet feminists would argue that the movement should not only be tolerated, it should be nurtured. They consider women's rights to have a positive, rather than a negative effect on society-even if it causes distress. Perhaps the same is true of the graphic depiction of sex.

Unsure how to find grace and security in the complex world we've inherited, we try to fill up the spaces in our children's lives with stuff: birthday entertainments, lessons, rooms full of toys and equipment, tutors and therapists. But material pleasures can't buy peace of mind, and all the excess leads to more anxiety—parents fear that their children will not be able to sustain this rarefied lifestyle and will fall off the mountain the parents have built for them.

There was a time when a young person rose when an adult entered the room, would not consider calling adults by their first names, and automatically came to the door to pick up a date. I am not nostalgic for this time. Socially acceptable behavior also included discrimination of every sort, sweeping family problems under the rug, and establishing household order through intimidation and submissive deference to Dad the All-Knowing Patriarch.

How Do I Decide? A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and Wrong, Rabbi Roland B. Gittlesohn's

A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

A woman's sexual modesty puts her, significantly, in a position to be the ultimate worldly arbiter of a man's worth—"Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine," as the temperance movement's slogan had it. Since respect for her modesty gave her the freedom to withhold affection, so to speak, until a virtuous man came around, men were in turn inspired to become worthy of her. Whether the cause was liquor or

This is becoming our great modern divide, his commitment problem and her hang-up problem. These two problems have emerged together for a reason. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit.

We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.

Self-esteem suffers the consequence when conscience does not want to live on appearance.

The conscience that only thinks about appearance does not suffer the consequence."

Conscience cannot convince self-esteem of bad character.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Büyük sava?ç?lar?n yapt??? kötülükleri de?il de, büyük adamlar?n dü?üncelerini içinde duyabildi?in an, çocuklar?n?n ö?retmenlerine politikac?lardan çok daha fazla ücret verildi?i an, kad?nla erkek aras?ndaki sevgiye, bir evlenme cüzdan?na gösterdi?inden daha büyük bir sayg? duydu?un zaman güzel olacak ya?am?n.

Le but de l'éducation, dès son origine, est d'élever les enfants en vue du mariage et de la famille. (p. 134)

Mutluluk önemlidir ama anlam daha önemlidir.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause. The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.

The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never have enough respect for true humanity as it is visible in the persons of the totally uneducated classes, and never enough humility if one sometimes believes one is superior to them.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.