Quotes About Values

I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.

People will meet me and say, 'You're not really a Tory.' And I'll say I've been a Tory all my life - my politics have hardly changed. It is about making a society that is just and kinder to people.

Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.

The right has to be more than the Tory party.

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

There's a lot to be done; I just see a total moral decay in our society.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.

Proactive people make choices based on values. They think before they act. They recognize they cannot control everything that happens to them, but they can control what they do about it.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important…

if you base your identity on having friends, being accepted, and being popular, you may find yourself compromising your standards or changing them every weekend to accommodate your friends.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

becoming American is less a function of birth or blood and more a function of embracing a set of ideas."14

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

Sin embargo, ninguna ha experimentado el desbordamiento fantástico y grotesco de todo eso a la vez, tal y como ocurrió en Alemania en 1923. Ninguna ha vivido esa danza de la muerte carnavalesca y gigante, esa saturnal eterna, sangrienta y grotesca, en la que no sólo se devaluó la moneda, sino todos los demás valores. El año 1923 preparó a Alemania no para el nazismo en particular, sino para cualquier aventura fantástica.

Lo que uno come y bebe, la persona a la que uno ama, las aficiones a las que dedica su tiempo libre, la gente con la que trata, si sonríe o tiene un aspecto siniestro, lo que lee y los cuadros que cuelga en la pared... en eso consiste la lucha política en Alemania. Éste es el campo sobre el que se deciden de antemano las batallas de la futura guerra mundial. Puede sonar grotesco, pero es así.

What would you risk dying for—and for whom—is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question, which is both an enormous blessing and a significant loss.

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?