Quotes About Values

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

No matter what path you choose, never forget to protect those who are precious to you.

American political conversation had become a space free from imagination and aspiration. Rather than talk about the future, we talked about policy; rather than talk about what's right and just, we talked about what's realistic and lawful; rather than discuss values, we discussed strategies. It was this dull, neutral, largely hollow space that Trump so easily filled with his crudeness, cruelty, and lies.

the Soviet Union's growing nationalist conservatism based on the glorification of some imaginary peasant class's traditional values.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." -Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

What if morality itself was not handed down from the Judeo-Christian God as a prescription? And was not even the imitation of a Platonic ideal, but was a spontaneous thing produced by social interaction among people seeking to find ways to get along?

if commercial behaviour might make people more moral.

Or, as one economist put it: 'The hippies were right all along'.

I just don't understand why being vegetarian makes you any better than anyone else. What's with the big statements? It's just a choice, in a free society. I think so long as you know where your food's coming from, and you're happy with that, then you should be able to live your life without being judged.

Some properties should not be changed. The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42, and you want it to stay that way. Error and status flags will often be hard-coded into your classes. Although they should be publicly and statically available, client code should not be able to change them.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing selves that are worth expressing.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

You'll then use your responses to the Valued Living Questionnaire in the following exercise, which will help you move toward engaging in what you value.

What would it be like to be lying there listening to your family parceling out a bunch of things you cared enough about to keep for your whole life? There's

If she wasn't pretty enough for them, fine, because they weren't worth her time anyway. They didn't make her happy. None of them were good people. None of them were nice.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a snob. I don't have a problem with Applebee's per se. But I think we can all agree, as a civilized society, that lives shouldn't change there. Significant

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a snob. I don't have a problem with Applebee's per se. But I think we can all agree, as a civilized society, that lives shouldn't change there.

A reading skimming the preceding pages might never know it, but most people like animals and often love them, and indeed we live in a time of great change in attitudes about the care and treatment of animals. Animal protection in this way is like many other great moral and social causes now adopted into custom and law, ideas once viewed as a threat to civilized values but not accepted as the extension of civilized values.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even where animals are concerned.

Granting Digby that one can be too emotional about animals, it seems fair to ask if one cannot also be a little to emotional about food. Why is it excessive sentimentality to see rabbits as our harmless fluffy tailed friends, but not excessive sentimentality to go on and on about rabbits soaked in rich gravy with the parsley and Dijon mustard and stock from the paws and head and old England and all the rest?

A reading skimming the preceding pages might never know it, but most people like animals and often love them, and indeed we live in a time of great change in attitudes about the care and treatment of animals. Animal protection in this way is like many other great moral and social causes now adopted into custom and law, ideas once viewed as a threat to civilized values but now accepted as the extension of civilized values.

Why doesn't Tacy like boys?' asked Alice. 'But I do like them,' protested Tacy. 'I just don't think they are little tin gods.