Quotes About Values

One does not part willingly with early loyalties or early traditions, and indeed the rolling years do but confirm them.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

The trouble with ideology, Alice, is that it hates the private. You must make it human.

The spiritual values that are essential to human happiness are being lost or made to seem trivial. Everything is buy, earn, sell

The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word organic - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process.

You can't regulate integrity

If people want to simulate a godly lifestyle - great. If they don't - good luck with that.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.

The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

We want to build a compassionate and truly democratic Singapore where good values and people matter.

I do not consume alcohol. You won't find a single picture that shows me drinking.

You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.

Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day.

I have two sons and I have taught them to respect women. They have also seen how I, a single mother, have raised them.

A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.

I grew up Catholic. The Catholic faith has played an integral role in my life. At the same time, I don't think that there is a single person that doesn't have some disagreements with their faith.

'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.