Quotes About Values

But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

All culture and tradition which has survived must have its benefits. Perhaps some of them do not fit in our world; however, they deserve our respect. Remember, if you get rid of your past, you have pulled out your root

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.

You can't give up a lowdown trade That your ancestors began; A butcher butchers things, and yet He's the tenderest-hearted man.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

What are we to make of a civilization which has always regarded ethics as an essential part of human life," he asked, but "which has not been able to talk about the prospect of killing almost everybody except in prudential and game-theoretical terms?

He reminded MacLeish of the "profound part that culture and society play in the very definition of human values, human salvation and liberation." Therefore, "I think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.

I know three people who are interested in politics. Tell me, what has politics to do with truth, goodness and beauty?

Do not confuse manners for kindness. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts.

Instead of worrying what others think of you, concentrate on what you care about instead.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

What's the point in weighing up consequences if it means you end up doing something you know isn't right? ", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.

This is how you know you aren't young any more: you start to care more about thread count than immediate gratification.

Because right and wrong are societo-religious creations. They have no basis in reality.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.