Quotes About Values

Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn't mean I have to go along with them.

Ä°nsan ruhu ne kadar yüce de yapt?klar? ne kadar aÅŸa??l?k!

They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

you begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are.

Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could figure it all out, break the code, of who you truly were, what you were up to, your values, your truest parts. ... you were layer upon layer of ideas and erasures and new ideas and soul and images. [p. 68]

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Find out what each character cares most in the world because then you will have discovered what's at stake.

We think that if our values aren't the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.

When it came down to reality, what mattered except the lives of those you loved? All that was precious was made up of passions and of love, of belief in a purpose beyond the habits of living from day to day. The

there are none as virtuous as those who have never been asked.

The more we think we are sophisticated sometimes the sillier we get—and certainly the more idle people there are with nothing to fill their minds except making moral rules for everyone else, the more hypocrisy there is as to who keeps them and who doesn't.

No hay nadie en el mundo que tenga suficiente dinero para comprar tu vida, tu honradez, tu hogar, tus amigos! Tu sueño por la noche... —No

One person's ideals sometimes endanger someone else's privileges.

so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it? Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

Our way–the Western Way–has always been a work in progress. Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are not relativists because we seek to re-evaluate again and again our most crucial moral positions.

everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people's deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth

It's all about aesthetics, morality and aesthetics are completely similar.

We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

Qué tendría que haber hecho Cristo para que lo siguiera como Mateo o Pedro? Vestirse bien, para empezar. Y tener una cabeza lujuriosa de abundante cabello rubio.

each being wars with his own angels and devils, each being succumbs to an essential set of values, a theme, as it were, which is inseparable from living a proper life.

it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.