Quotes About Values

W]e as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are all incapable of being conquered.14

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

A man oughta do what he thinks is best.

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

if people are to accept Christianity, it will not be because of our superior institutions, but because Jesus Christ is seen to contribute to primary values — authentic love, selfless service, ruthless honesty.

And it seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Odd, don't you think? We could drown a litter of kittens that is no sort of threat to us – but these creatures we shall carefully rear.

Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable.

I felt a poignant memory of those desolate patches of disillusion which are the shocks of growing up. The discovery that one lived in a world which could pay honour where honour was not due, was just such a one. The values were rocked, the dependable was suddenly flimsy, the solid became hollow, gold turned to brass, there was no integrity anywhere …

Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago.

Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?

Love that can't trump intellectual integrity isn't worth the name.

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.