Quotes About Values

Some inner integrity had preserved their shop from being a shoppe.

I only wanted to be good—the trouble is that being good gets you nowhere.

They're a lovely couple—she doesn't mind his not being too bright and he doesn't mind her not looking so good. But beauty makes nothing good, my mother says. It's goodness that makes everything beautiful.

Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It's the people who matter. I'm able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That's what was important to my father, and it became important to me.

It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..

Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.

In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes. It is only in the highest and most sacred things that he allows himself to do so.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.

The thought suggests itself that a psychical power is operative in the dream-work which on the one hand strips the psychically valuable elements of their intensity, and on the other creates new values by way of over-determination out of elements of low value; it is the new values that then reach the dream-content.

el antiguo principio de minima non curat praetor, que entre lo bueno y lo malo existe todo un amplio grupo de cosas pequeñas e indiferentes, de las que nadie debe hacerse un reproche.

Kita tidak bisa menghindari kesan bahwa manusia umumnya menggunakan standar yang keliru. Mereka mencari kekuatan, sukses, dan kekayaan untuk diri mereka sendiri, memuji diri mereka sendiri di hadapan orang lain dan mereka memandang rendah pada apa yang sebenarnya berharga dalam hidup.

Another question: why do people often find animal suffering harder to accept than the suffering of other human beings?

What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

Let's face it, this is America. Anything that's bad for business, people don't want to hear. When it comes to money or doing the right thing, most people are going to choose money. Close up shop for months till they can make a new vaccine? How many businesses would still be alive after that?

They all knew that she was serious and they all knew what she wasn't saying—that their land was the most important thing they had besides one another.

seperate morality from its effects, and you will see that everyone regards ias a nuisance, an annoying brake on their freedom of action.

Living the human values allows us to more fully understand the underlying reasons for someone's behaviour and why that person is acting in any particular way. When you live the human values, you can see more about a situation. If someone manifests behaviour in a way which we do not expect and our lives do not have the grounding which the human values provide, we do not know what to do or how to respond.

Lisa Simpson is the kind of child we not only want our children to be, but also the kind of child we want all children to be.

La restitución moral es más fuerte que la restitución material

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values, and it is impossible for me to examine this conviction with an objective eye.