Quotes About Values

Now as then, the various ideals of happiness carry fundamental moral teachings about how to live.

It is not possible, many argue, to insist on respecting both difference and sameness when it comes to moral values: on honoring individual and cultural diversity while also holding that certain moral values go to the heart of what it means to be human and always have, since the beginning of time, and always must if we are not to lose touch with our humanity.

man. I know these Americans believe that "all men are created equal." I don't. I believe all men are created, period. And each man makes choices and takes action one way or another. What a man chooses to do or not to do is the only way to measure his worth. A man who chooses to love is not equal to a man who chooses not to love. A man who builds is not equal to a man who destroys. A

Over here in America, the dishonorable ones are accepted and sometimes even welcomed, and often are given authority over other people's lives, while the honorable ones are dealt with dishonorably.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

We pay for every little choice we make. You traded everyone else's life for yours. I traded my life for everyone else's.

There is a verse in the Bible which reads: 'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter'. How did we get here America? When did we turn our backs on the precepts and common sense on which this country was founded? As a country, we have collectively lost our way, and nothing short of a total about face can save us!

People just can't get along anymore. There's no commitment, no loyalty, no trust.

How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and talk so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

Bad people live that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink that they may live.

The purpose in life is to develop a strong character.

Criton - Le principe, que l'important n'est pas de vivre, mais de bien vivre.

Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.

We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.