Quotes About Values

Two changes manifested themselves right away: the first was a new attitude toward money, the second toward time.

The Bonhoeffers were sincerely patriotic, but they never exhibited the nationalistic passion of most other Germans. They maintained a sense of perspective and a coolness, which they taught their children to cultivate.

The Bonhoeffers raised their children to do the right thing, so when they behaved selflessly and bravely, it was difficult to argue.

During this period, he did some things that challenge our modern sensibilities.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

A visão é a parte inegociável da missão da equipe – é aquilo que faz você preferir fechar as portas a ter que ceder.

There had to be more to life than chasing money and grabbing Power.

Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

THE AIM of the extraverted type of hero is action: he is the founder, leader, and liberator whose deeds change the face of the world. The introverted type is the culture-bringer, the redeemer and savior who discovers the inner values, exalting them as knowledge and wisdom, as a law and a faith, a work to be accomplished and an example to be followed.

so long as culture is "in balance," the individuals contained in it normally stand in an adequate relationship to the collective unconscious, even if this is only a relationship to the archetypal projections of the cultural canon and to its highest values.

Progression through the archetypal phases, the patriarchal orientation of consciousness, the formation of the superego as the representative of collective values within the personality, the existence of a collective value-canon, all these things are necessary conditions of normal, ethical development. If any one of these factors is inhibited, developmental disturbances result.

Truth is a permanent discontinuation of values which must be adjusted recurrently. ( "Hinter der Mattscheibe" )

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

Actions may be judged according to time and place, and their values may change; but style, language (apart from content) are crystallized at the moment.

Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we came from!

What the Tribe needs is the warrior code, and we're going to teach it to them!

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.

When history seems to offer no sanctuary for values (when history is assailed by wars and inhuman or immoral public actions), literature can provide a model, often as horrendous as that of history, but one which by virtue of its fictional nature is bound to keep an ironic, parodic, aesthetic or philosophical distance from what is at risk in immediate experience or direct reflection.

When we say we lack time to cook -- or even time to eat -- we are not making a simple statement of fact. We are talking about cultural values and the way that our society dictates that our days should be carved up.