Quotes About Values

Se podría sugerir que la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

But it isn't so much a matter of what you do as a parent; it's who you are.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work—whereas economics represents how it actually does work.

Or, as W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

So if sumo wrestlers, schoolteachers, and day-care parents all cheat, are we to assume

W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work

When people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

Each of us develops a moral compass (some stronger than others, to be sure) as we make our way through the world. This is for the most part a wonderful thing. Who wants to live in a world where people run around with no regard for the difference between right and wrong?

If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.

really care about, not what they say they care about. 2. Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide. 3. Pay attention to how people respond; if their response surprises

Lo que realmente importa para un candidato político no es cuánto gasta, sino quién es.

Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks.

Lion was the one who pointed out that naming hotels after Millennial values -- the Truth, the Purpose, the Community -- now that his generation had reached the age where the luxury of billboard ethics had been derailed by the verities of life, might be lucrative. Aspirational nostalgia, he dubbed it.

Feminization is the process in which cultures have increasingly respected the interests and values of women. Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

Nationalism should not be confused with civic values, public spirit, social responsibility, or cultural pride.

A world that is less invigorated by honor, glory, and ideology and more tempted by the pleasures of bourgeois life is a world in which fewer people are killed.

Aristocratic, religious, and martial cultures have always looked down on commerce as tawdry and venal.

Political ideologies, too, cannot be defined in terms of assumptions or values, but only as rival versions of the metaphor that SOCIETY IS A FAMILY. The political right likens society to a family commanded by a strict father, the political left to a family cared for by a nurturant parent.

People affirm or deny these beliefs to express not what they know but who they are.

Religions can also clash with humanism by valuing souls above lives, which is not as uplifting as it sounds. Belief in an afterlife implies that health and happiness are not such a big deal, because life on earth is an infinitesimal portion of one's existence;

Humanism may seem bland and unexceptionable—who could be against human flourishing? But in fact it is a distinctive moral commitment, one that does not come naturally to the human mind.

Populist voters are older, more religious, more rural, less educated, and more likely to be male and members of the ethnic majority. They embrace authoritarian values, place themselves on the right of the political spectrum, and dislike immigration and global and national governance.