Quotes About Values

You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Only false values prevail, because everyone can assimilate them, counterfeit them (false thereby to the second degree). An idea that succeeds is necessarily a pseudo-idea.

Un popor este pierdut când nu mai poate z?misli zei, când È™i-i caut? în alt? parte.

Les héros homériques vivaient et mouraient; les snobs de l'Occident discutaient du plaisir et de la douler.

WÅ'aÅ›nie nasi najbli?si najchÄ™tniej kwestionujÄ… nasze zalety. Jest to reguÅ'a powszechna, nie uniknÄ…Å' jej nawet Budda. Najzacieklej wystÄ™powaÅ' przeciwko niemu jeden z jego kuzynów, dopiero zaÅ› pó?niej Mara, diabeÅ'.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Invest them elsewhere; in any case, we do not serve the same gods.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Respectable people... What bastards!

Give yourself time for those things that are most important in your life!

Those kinds of morals and that kind of religion which tend to make the firmest and most effectual character are sure to prevail, all else being the same; and creeds or systems that conduce to a soft limp mind tend to perish, except some hard extrinsic force keep them alive.

Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.

A nation will be automatically destroyed if its people forget their religion , culture and tradiations.

We must avoid from the person before which legitimate and unlegitimate thingsor works are equal.

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Philanthropic zeal supplies admirable motive power, but makes a very indifferent compass; and of two evils it is better, perhaps, that our ship shall go nowhere than that it shall go wrong, that it should stand still than that it should run upon the rocks.

Morals, as I conceive them, are concerned with ends of action: and principally with ultimate ends of action. An end of action, in so far as it is ultimate, is one which is pursued for itself alone, and not as a means to some other end. Of course an end may be, and constantly is, both ultimate and contributory. It is sought for on its own account, and also as an instrument for procuring something else. It is mainly in the first of these capacities, however, that it concerns morality.

Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode.

On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.

È meglio godere della ricchezza dei sentimenti che del lusso dei vestiti. Non temo io, no davvero, il disprezzo di nessuno.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.