Quotes About Values

We're guessing the bonjour ritual is expanding because it underlines equality—a principle the French value much more than either liberty or fraternity.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

The notion of a Judeo-Christian tradition, he says, is a myth invented by Enlightenment humanists to promote pluralistic social values.

CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING IS infused with the values of Christian Reconstruction and is seen by those in the movement as the single most important tool for the exercise of dominion.

From his loftiest pulpit the modern clerc assures man that he is great in proportion as he is practical.

The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action...

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

Nuestra verdad posible tiene que ser invención, es decir escritura, literatura, pintura, escultura, agricultura, piscicultura, todas las turas de este mundo. Los valores, turas, la santidad, una tura, la sociedad, una tura, el amor, pura tura, la belleza, tura de turas.

No será, che, que para ciertos niveles todo lo que no es inmediatamente claro es culpablemente oscuro? ¿No habrá una secreta y a veces siniestra necesidad de uniformar la escala de valores para poder sacar la cabeza por encima de la ola?

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle

The hands of the latest aristocrats seem better fit to hold tennis rackets or shakers for cocktail mixes than swords or scepter.

Knighthood, instead, appeared as a superterritorial and supernational community in which its members, who were consecrated to military priesthood, no longer had a homeland and thus were bound by faithfulness not to people but, on the one hand, to an ethics that had as its fundamental values honor, truth, courage, and loyalty and, on the other hand, to a spiritual authority of a universal type, which was essentially that of the Empire.

Dejemos al hombre moderno con sus "verdades" y preocupémonos solamente de una cosa: de mantenernos de pie en medio de un mundo en ruinas

The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.

Hay quienes quieren llegar a la luna, mientras nosotros aún estamos tratando de llegar a la aldea

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

That's white people for you. They lose a cat and it's an all-points bulletin, but we Dominicans, we lose a daughter and we might not even cancel our appointment at the salon.

Así son los blancos. Pierden un gato y hacen sonar la alarma y hay titulares en primera plana, pero nosotros, los dominicanos, perdemos una hija y puede que ni cancelemos la cita en la peluquería.

Convenience will never outweigh love.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.