Quotes About Values

Money was a big differentiator when I was growing up, but I made sure it doesn't stay that way.

The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you.

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

I've always worked - I can't stay at home and do Cokes and teas, although I think that for those people who want to do that, then that's surely important to them.

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

I prefer to focus on who I am as a person and what I stand for. We all want to look good, but I find it more rewarding to work on feeling good and going a bit deeper beneath the surface.

We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

If a man can be corrupted by a few books, I doubt if there was anything there to begin with.

They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room." I didn't say anything.

In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can't expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection to a lack of quality.

In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can't expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection to a lack of quality. You can't have quality with mass production. You don't want it because it lasts too long.

If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things.

Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a book to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It's for all of us.

Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

Changes in ideas and values also result from work done by writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media.

a man who controls some part of the fate of the world apparently devoted his energies to generating fear, misery, and injustice around him says something about the shape of our world and the values of the nations and institutions that tolerated his behavior and that of men like him.