Quotes About Values

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

The  thought system which dominates our culture is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorienting.  For years, we may have worked for power, money or prestige.  Now all of a sudden we've learned that these are just the values of a dying world.

Pero los judíos, además, son conocidos por la forma en que estimulan los logros intelectuales en sus hijos.

What is going on in America today is not just a political contest; it is a spiritual contest.

we need to atone for our mistakes as a nation and return to the democratic principles and universal human values from which we have strayed.

The crucifixion of the Goddess - the invalidation of feminine beliefs and values - lies at the heart of all our painful dramas. But crucifixion is merely a prelude to resurrection, and we are now living at the beginning stages of the resurrection of the Goddess.

The idea that a corporation should bear no responsibility to anything other than the financial bottom line of its stockholders destroys the

For one thing she [Alice Hayward] possessed that passionate love of abstract justice which has become more a woman's than a man's trait, in our modern civilisation.

It wasn't enough for Teddy to know that his family could not be counted in the statistics of poverty—among those who did not rely on government subsidies of any kind: they went to work; they owned their own home; their sons did not go to jail; their daughters got married before they got pregnant; there were few drug addicts and alcoholics among them—and those who succumbed did so in the privacy of their homes and not on the street disgracing everybody.

morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them

There are many ways to live a good life

Conscience can be slow to awake, even to abuses that are deeply contrary to declared values—for example, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And if conscience is at peace with such things, if it rationalizes and endorses them, does it still possess an authority that justifies its expression, since acceptance is as much an act of conscience as resistance

I'm only interested in an art which can change the ideology of society....Art which is only committed to aesthetic values is incomplete.

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.

The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.

Un hombre que no pasa el suficiente tiempo con su familia no merece ser llamado hombre.

It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.

A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.

jak w?a?ciwie nale?a?o ?y? - szcz??liwie czy moralnie?

La frivolidad consiste en tener una tabla de valores invertida o desequilibrada en la que la forma importa más que el contenido, la apariencia más que la esencia y en la que el gesto y el desplante —la representación— hacen las veces de sentimientos e ideas.

Maar wie maakte zich druk om geld als je het afwoog tegen geluk?

El liberalismo es una doctrina que no tiene respuestas para todo, como pretende el marxismo, y admite en su seno la divergencia y la crítica, a partir de un cuerpo pequeño pero inequívoco de convicciones. Por ejemplo, que la libertad es el valor supremo y que ella no es divisible y fragmentaria, que es una sola y debe manifestarse en todos los dominios —el económico, el político, el social, el cultural— en una sociedad genuinamente democrática.

Una de las consecuencias de la primacía del hombre-masa en la vida de las naciones es, dice, el desinterés de la sociedad aquejada de primitivismo y de vulgaridad por los principios generales de la cultura, es decir, por las bases mismas de la civilización.