Quotes About Values

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.

Beanbags and softball matches and a cool Twitter handle doesn't make young people want to work at your office.

Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators.

Classical economics values things by seeing how much someone will pay for them. But this is where classical economics is wrong. What it fails to account for are all the 'externalities' - the services people regard as free goods: pollination services, flood protection, climate regulation, soil stabilization, carbon sequestration.

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

I have never sold my story, done 'Hello!' magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

I never sold out. I never made an album to buy a house.

I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

Our parents are beyond proud that we never sold out once and created something together.

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.