Quotes About Values

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

Photographs cannot create a moral position, but they can reinforce one-and can help build a nascent one.

I think that the old-young polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. The values associated with youth and with masculinity are considered to be the human norms, and anything else is taken to be at least less worthwhile or inferior.

What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.

San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to be rectified by well-meaning friends.

I believe that for a lucky few, love can grow from what is truly important in life—honor, respect and recognition. Now, those are matters worth pursuing, wouldn't you say?

The next day Mrs Honeyfoot told her husband that John Segundus was exactly what a gentleman should be, but she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

Principles triumph, they do not compromise.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Groups don't really impact a local church until they become part of a church's culture. And that begins with senior leadership.

I had a strict No Assholes policy, and I'd never met a cheater of either sex who wasn't some stripe of asshole underneath the He doesn't understand mes and the We drifted aparts and the She won't do that thing I need in beds

Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.' " "Is

I never did anything on game night, even though I recorded the games and could always watch them later, because those nights were sacrosanct, and if I gave up the one sacrosanct thing, where would I be and what would I have?

As I see it, dating is a product of our entertainment-driven, disposable-everything American culture...Love and romance became things people could solely enjoy for their recreational value.

She began to notice his servant's heart, his humility, and his leadership. This attraction felt different from her prior experiences of liking guys. "Before it had always been, 'Here's the guy I want!' But this time I thought, 'Here's a man I could follow.

Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

I would rather be strong at heart than strong at mind

The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilization.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Alles, was wir als Erwachsene werden, geht darauf zurück, wer wir als Kinder waren, wie wir behandelt wurden und was unsere Ideen und Werte geprägt hat. Wir sind, wer wir waren - nur größer.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have.