Quotes About Values

who value a handshake more than an unreadable fancy signature,

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

A good home must be made, not bought.

No pueden hablar de democracia quienes se niegan a defender la autonomía individual frente a supuestos valores colectivos que no son sino la sujeción a dogmas y a ideologías autoritarias.

Y ahí el veterano se acordó de la charla sobre las milanesas. El culo y las milanesas, valores universales.

The same generation that believed premarital sex was a sin thought it was perfectly fine to send their young people off to die in a senseless war.

She is not only beautiful on the outside, but inwards as well. When she is old and not so lovely, she will be well loved. But you! Your beauty is on the outside alone. If it were taken away from you, only a querulous, evil-minded, vicious woman would remain.

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

The problem with monotonic logic lies not in the hardness of its truth values, but rather in its inability to process context-dependent information.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

you never give anything below your own taste level—something you wouldn't want, but suppose is good enough for others.

A gold digger may no longer be someone who strings gentlemen along while she works busily to get hold of their fortunes. She is more likely to be someone who strings gentlemen along because she is too busy for them while she is working to make her fortune.

One acts with dignity," he said, "as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one's pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

D]ie spezielle Müdigkeit, die jeden befällt, der sich anhören muss, was gut und böse, richtig und falsch sei, obwohl niemand mehr die Grundlagen dieser Unterscheidung zu erklären oder auch nur zu benennen vermag. Moral dient der Herbeiführung von Berechenbarkeit.

een maatschappij waarin het er alleen nog om ging om tijdens de grote uitverkoop van waarden en normen de eigen schaapjes op het droge te krijgen.

D]ie Urenkel der Nihilisten [...] Was, wenn ihnen Bibel, Grundgesetz und Strafrecht nie mehr gegolten hätten als Anleitung und Regelbuch zu einem Gesellschafsspiel? [...] Wenn wir ihre Gründe nicht mehr verstünden, weil es keine gibt?

A virtue is a disposition which is central to the person, to whom he or she is, a way we standardly think of character.

That is why it would be grotesque to have posters in elementary schools depicting Donald Trump as a hero for the young, rather than people like King, Gandhi, and Mandela.14

any breaches

All in all, this shows that not every bad person dresses immodestly, and not every well-dressed person is holy, but it merely clarifies the pagan characteristics of public nudity and the Christian roots of reverencing the human body.