Quotes About Values

After all, there are "good" behaviors and "bad" behaviors—are they really equivalent?

High thinking and high living are poles apart.

Nationalism is about putting the (ethno-)nation above liberal-democratic and leftist values alike. Once one takes that step, one is not separated from other nationalists by anything irreducible.

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor, to obtain good customs.

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

I don't really want to rap about money.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

I'm in a rare position where I don't have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament.

One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I prefer to die rather than eat beef.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.

I don't care about getting re-elected; I care about saving the country.

I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.