Quotes About Values

It's my parents' attitudes to situations that gives me a sense of reality about what's worth worrying about, and what's not.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.

There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing - the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It's worrying.

My advice to Republicans: Stop worrying about the 'Hispanic' vote. Focus on being true to your party platform, because the party that can deliver economic opportunity along with traditional family values will prevail with Hispanics - and most other Americans.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

It may sound crazy to people, but I don't follow any spiritual leader or worship at any house of God. I just feel you should be good to people around you, your family and friends.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.