Quotes About Values

This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people to make bad decisions without seeing them as bad.

He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

Let me once again give you the principle I offered in chapter 2: If there is no God, there are no values; if there are no values, there is no meaning; and if there is no meaning, you are a turnip and will simply live for a while, die, and then go back to the soil from which you came.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

What are we saying to our children when we forsake church week after week so they can play soccer, baseball, or football? Why would we forsake worship of the living God to embrace kicking a ball? Why not forsake soccer to let our children know who and what is most important in our lives? There is nothing wrong with sports. But when sport is valued over the worship of God, something is seriously wrong. All that we have comes from His hand. He deserves

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Men respect standards- get some!

life responsibilities in the right order: God, family, education, and then business.

he's become the man he envisioned himself being and has put his priorities in this order: God, family, education, business, and then everything else. But if family isn't second, it's about to be a problem;

two things had to happen to him: first, he had to find out what was important to him, and what it was like to lose it. And second, he had to come to the realization that he needed to restructure his priorities: God first, then family.

A woman who commands respect is a keeper; a woman who lets men get away with disrespecting her is a throwback.

5. A woman who can hold a respectful, respectable conversation with a man and his mother is a keeper; a woman who shudders at the prospect of having to talk to the matriarch of a man's family is a throwback.

9. If he does not have himself together financially, emotionally, and spiritually, he may be sport fishing; if he is capable of providing and protecting his potential family the way a real man should, then he might be searching for a keeper.

What good is a fast car, a flash house, and a gold-plated dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all.

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"

I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.

Because your core values can serve as a measuring stick for all of your choices and decisions in life , keeping you focused on the person you want to be and the life you wish to lead.

A Bíblia não nos diz como produzir programas de de rádio ou editar jornais, mas tem muito a dizer sobre prioridades. (p. 89)

To tolerate Socrates would be to say to him that we care so little for our way of life that we are willing to let you challenge and impugn it every day.

which approach is more scientific: Aristotle's, which is explicitly and necessarily evaluative, which offers advice and exhortation about how to care for the political order, or contemporary political science, which claims to be neutral and nonpartisan, but which smuggles its values and preferences in through the back door.

My kids can do whatever they want as long as they are not Republicans or junkies. That is where I draw the line.

It's easy to consider everyone a sucker who cares about things you don't care about. So who does that make the sucker?