Quotes About Values

A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

how important it is to have a personal mission statement of what

Rules of the House Character: Do the Right Thing Excellence: Do Your Very Best Respect: Do the Golden Rule

Tradition, meaning, and relevance

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

People know that you have to exhibit C.A.R. Curiosity, Appreciation and Respect, in order to be gifted with my friendship as otherwise you are wasting my valuable time and yours

Materialistic items do not move me, I love nice things but they do not motivate or decide for me what I do in life

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.

the character of American civilization is a bundle of contradictions,

pluralism today—at least in America—exists without a dominant culture,

idealism ignores the way culture is generated,

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

One fights only to save his family from imminent harm. Fighting for any other reason, least of all pride, is a waste of human lives and resources.

If you have not learned wisdom and prudence in the use of "unrighteous mammon," how can you be trusted with the more enduring riches?

Today, if asked about their religion, people in the center say they're nothing, because that's the cultural thing to say.

A man without conscience is but a poor creature...

There are some cherished values that resist being quantified or squeezed into monetary terms, but are no less real for that. Agents of democratic societies are responsible to the people, but we should remember that "the people" refers not only to

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

In effect, Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

The intellectual normally values reason above all, Dover demonstrates that reason divorced from emotion becomes cold, clinical and ahuman.

Collective character is vital to success. Focus on getting the culture right; the results will follow.