Quotes About Values

Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Wij hebben geen onvervreemdbaar en 'natuurlijk' recht op het vrije woord. Elke samenleving zal bepaalde uitingen pornografisch of opruiend achten en taboe verklaren. De betekenis van zowel 'vrij' als 'woord' wordt doorlopend aangepast om aan de behoeften van de gemeenschap tegemoet te komen.

we sometimes have a choice among authorities, and we ought to look at this phenomenon within the experiment. It is possible that when different authorities simultaneously call for opposing lines of action, a person's own values will prevail and determine which authority he follows. Or

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many educated Europeans saw Greece not as the obscure, impoverished, and backward province of the Ottoman Empire it was, but as the birthplace of the most important ancient civilization, whose values shaped and defined modern Europe.

The rebels were seen as the descendants of the civilization to which the West owed its values—and now they rose from the ashes!

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

be a human being first and a scientist second.

I realized I wanted a just world here on earth, not a just paradise somewhere else.

It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.

In such epochs where the highest values of life—our peace, our independence, our basic rights, all that makes our existence more pure, more beautiful, all that justifies it—are sacrificed to the demon inhabiting a dozen fanatics and ideologues, all the problems of the man who fears for his humanity come down to the same question: how to remain free?

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

Una de las misteriosas leyes de la vida es que descubrimos siempre tarde sus auténticos y más esenciales valores: la juventud, cuando desaparece; la salud, tan pronto como nos abandona, y la libertad, esa esencia preciosísima de nuestra alma, sólo cuando está a punto de sernos arrebatada o ya nos ha sido arrebatada.

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

One should take good care never to treat one's own moral code as something universally valid

The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.

Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.

Another limit on intimate marriage in the nineteenth century was that many people still held the Enlightenment view that love developed slowly out of admiration, respect, and appreciation of someone's good character. Coupled with the taboos on expressions of sexual desire, these values meant that the love one felt for a sweetheart often was not seen as qualitatively different from the feeling one might have for a sister, a friend, or even an idea.

High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their twenties believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living.11

One missionary warned a Naskapi man that if he did not impose tighter controls on his wife, he would never know for sure which of the children she bore belonged to him. The Indian was equally shocked that this mattered to Europeans. "You French people," he replied, "love only your own children; but we love all the children of our tribe."17

Are things going the way we both want them? Are things going the way that suits us individually? What are the values we hold, separately and together? How is our relationship supporting those values? Is one of us developing at the expense of the other? Can we look at difficulties from the other's point of view? Would we both be willing to make behavioural changes if those are needed?

I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.