Quotes About Values

Ä°nsan; her zaman, ona en büyük zihinsel rahatl??? getirecek olan ÅŸeyi yapacakt?r - zira bu onun yaÅŸam?n?n yegane yasas?d?r. AÄŸlaÅŸan ailesini geride b?rak?r; onlar?n rahat?n? bozduÄŸunu için üzgündür, fakat onlar?n rahatl???n? korumak için kendi rahat?n? feda edecek kadar deÄŸil.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the _art_ of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Good books, good friends, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Buenos amigos, buenos libros y una consciencia dormida; esa es la vida ideal.

best parents are poor people who have a little bit of money and rich people who have had a little bit of poverty.

We might be criminals, but we're not totally immoral. - Arthur Berg

Anyway nonna, grandmother, and everyone else has more sympathy for a whiff of failure than for the smell of new money.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Each one of us is what he pursues and cares for. In everyday terms, we understand ourselves and our existence by way of the activities we pursue and the things we care of.

If You've Got Nothing Worth Dying For, You've Got Nothing Worth Living For

Martin luther king '' A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralysing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.