Quotes About Values

If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that a culture is getting better , or progressing, is if there are objective moral norms that are not dependent on culture to which a society may draw closer.

There are two kinds of oughts, and there are two ways to be wrong about something. We can be wrong by being irrational, or we can be wrong by being unethical. Morality deals with the second.

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

ésta es una ciudad donde, en los últimos cuarenta años, los valores de la gente han ido cambiando más rápidamente que en el resto del país. ¿Por qué? Porque aquí están las universidades más grandes y más importantes, y eso lo cambia todo: eso incrementa el número de personas que piensan, que critican y analizan; se vuelven más sensibles y tolerantes.

En el horizonte lo que se vislumbra es el fascismo y la única forma de evitarlo, de caer en esas arenas movedizas, es recuperando el humanismo.

La moral siempre se adapta a la vida, y nunca a la inversa

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

Change everything except your loves.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.

1. Man is a MORAL animal. 2. You can get human beings to do anything — IF you convince them it is moral. 3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.

Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

What role models do kids have nowadays?Some ridiculously overpaid footballer prone to childish tantrums?The morons in the Big Brother house,perhaps? Or maybe the various gun-toting rappers who regularly delight us with their expletive-ridden vocabulary and eccentric attitude to women?

There is no patron saint of estate agents because no estate agent has ever become a saint. There have been saints who were sailors, blacksmiths, soldiers, bakers, teachers, housewives, swineherds, kings even. But in the whole of history, not one estate agent ever became a saint or even a blessed. It makes you think.

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

A society remains functional as long as too many people aren't corrupt in too many places for too long.

Civilisation is soap".

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.