Quotes About Values

When money and comfort are absent, other more fundamental aspects take on greater importance. Traditions, rules, taboos.

She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.

How could I put across to him how it was with me? How much I was driven timorously by a desire to please and yet found myself stubbornly unable to do so by obedience to any values but my own? Since my values were not shared by those around me, I couldn't possibly win.

I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." This in essence was to be the Burke thesis: that principle does not have to be demonstrated when the demonstration is inexpedient.

England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

Destroy the idea of God, and you destroy the idea of moral authority.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

bullshit might help you get to the top, but it won't keep you there.

It was good to keep those things that kept life in perspective close to hand in case one forgot his reality and became lost, or drugged by riches.

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money.

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life

But clearly, the lesson is that incentives can be a dangerous weapon. A critic of this research might say that the problem is not incentives, but dumb incentives. No doubt, some incentives are dumber than others. But no incentives can ever be smart enough to substitute for people who do the right thing because it's the right thing.

Knowing what's good enough requires knowing yourself and what you care about. So: Think about occasions in life when you settle, comfortably, for "good enough"; Scrutinize how you choose in those areas; Then apply that strategy more broadly.

There are many who fear disgrace, few who fear conscience.

It shows how to evaluate claims about facts (what might happen) and about values (what might matter).

El honor, en fin, constituye un gran impedimento porque para lograrlo es preciso vivir según la manera de ver de la gente, es decir, huir de lo que ella huye y buscar lo que ella busca.

To be a useful man has always seemed to me a hideous thing.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation without ruination.

I don't care too much for money For money can't buy me love

I would never be on a reality show.