Quotes About Values

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you wouldn't read yourself.

The real slavery of to-day is slavery to ideals of virtue.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much. We have multiplied out possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years.

Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

There was nothing financial, still less sordid, in her previsions: she cared about what were considered refinements, and not about the money that was to pay for them.

It is a woman's duty not to lower herself.

have never seen that her religion made any difference in her dress.

Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial; a costume selected with the high moral purpose of instilling perfect humility into Bessy and her children.

In those days the world in general was more ignorant of good and evil by forty years than it is at present

We've seen that the major moral divisions in our politics derive from two opposed models of the family: a progressive (nurturant parent) morality and a conservative (strict father) morality. That is no accident, since your family life has a profound effect on how you understand yourself as a person.