Quotes About Values

Patativa do Assaré: "É melhor escrever errado a coisa certa do que escrever certo a coisa errada...

We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

He thought it exceedingly unlikely that he would ever have married any girl, however many millions she had, if he had not loved her, and this was probably true enough, for what it is worth. Love and a million dollars is obviously a more attractive proposition than love without it, especially to a young man whose only skills were sonneteering and riding, who had been brought up to the idea of wealth and who had just run through most of his inheritance.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

When it comes to loving and living and dying, there is no such thing as being modern and fashionable. Some things will never change. For it isn't time that's passing by, my friend; it is you and I.

On books and friends I spend my money; For stones and bricks I haven't any.

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves

Assaulted as we are with so many advertisements, messages, appeals, theories, and obligations, we are in danger of losing our way, if not our sanity. We must choose just those few things that we really value. If we filter out the rest and focus on these, we can regain our perspective, and our happiness.

And Sophie wrote: "We carry all our standards within ourselves, only we don't look for them closely enough. Perhaps because they are the severest standards.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

own. You cannot trust a man in your family that is not true to his own wife. You cannot trust a man in the world that does not begin with his own heart, his own character, and his own life.

The moment a young man or woman gets more money than he or she has grown to by practical experience, that moment he has gotten a curse. It is no help to a young man or woman to inherit money. It is no help to your children to leave them money, but if you leave them education, if you leave them Christian and noble character, if you leave them a wide circle of friends, if you leave them an honorable name, it is far better than that they should have money.

Tradition is a guide to the permanent qualities in society and thought and private life which need to be preserved in one form or another, throughout the process of inevitable change.

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Worse still, what future have a people whose schooling has enabled them, at best, to ascertain the price of everything—but the value of nothing?

So how, in an increasingly interconnected world, do we integrate and still keep our values?