Quotes About Values

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

There is a lot of talk about the betrayal of Judas, and people are not aware that it is happening again. Christ is being sold again, not to the leaders of the Sanhedrin for thirty pieces of silver but to editors and booksellers for millions of dollars. . .

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

We need to balance between two important values, freedom of expression, and social responsibility.

These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

Didn't we all grow up understanding that bribes and payoffs - - by whatever name or rationale - - were bad. And that people were supposed to be the focal point of society, not money?

have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. 1743-1826 THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AUTHOR OF THE U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Contemporary philosopher Max More describes the goal of humanity as a transcendence to be "achieved through science and technology steered by human values.

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

They bragged about democracy and demonized countries that didn't have it, but they didn't really believe in democracy. They believed in hypocrisy. Their moral compass had spun out of control, from the very top down.

My values are relativistic, and I'll give a cop the benefit of the doubt. If that's me with my gat – my gat's larger than the one depicted – we can have a discussion, and he can answer me just as well with my .357 barrel in his mouth, or on his cheek, or on his adenoids, or down his throat. I'll listen to his whimpering cries.

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

I will be in a position where I can afford the Bugatti, but I most certainly won't be buying it.

I'm very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago - now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.

I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.

A person that wants to come to our country must share our Canadian values.

While people might talk about the divisions in this country, what I've seen is that across this country, we share so much in common, we share so many values, we want to take care of one another - that's what it means to be Canadian.