Quotes About Values

A.J. runs their credit cards and concludes that a theft is an acceptable social loss while a death is an isolating one.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."   (Jonas Salk)

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Sometimes in order to understand what is right, we have to first recognize what is wrong.

T]he American fanatic has always suffered moral disorientation at the mere thought of anyone 'getting something for nothing'.

Don't take no shit off fools. An' you judge a person by what's in 'em, not how they look. An' you do the right thing. You gotta be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad.

ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad.

if money affects who you love, then it isn't really love.

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Make good decisions and remember who you are." "Make good decisions and remember who loves you.