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Quotes About Values

Here's what I find about compromise, don't do it if it hurts inside, 'cause either way you're screwed and eventually you'll find that you may as well feel good, you may as well have some pride. (Amy Ray)
~ Indigo Girls
De tilhørte nemlig den klassen av det franske høyborgerskapet som heller vil se barna sine uten brød, kjøtt og luft enn uten eksamenspapirer.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
~ Iris Murdoch
Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable.
~ Iris Murdoch
The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.
~ Iris Murdoch
I wonder if it's harder to be good in this age?
~ Iris Murdoch
Moral concepts do not move about within a hard world set up by science and logic. They set up, for different purposes, a different world.
~ Iris Murdoch
Adelaide cooked a plain dinner since neither Will nor Auntie ever knew what they were eating and Will thought interest in food was bourgeois.
~ Iris Murdoch
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
~ Irvine Welsh
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
~ Irvine Welsh
it seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
~ Irvine Welsh
Ah'd rather see ma sister in a brothel than ma brother in a Hearts scarf n that's fuckin true...
~ Irvine Welsh
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
~ Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!
~ Isaac Asimov
Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.
~ Isaac Asimov
We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.
~ Isaac Asimov
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
Con toda seguridad es preferible que el inmoral aprenda la moral a través de la adversidad, a que el moral olvide serlo en la prosperidad.
~ Isaac Asimov
La verdad científica está por encima de la lealtad y la deslealtad.
~ Isaac Asimov
Sin la interdependencia humana, desaparece el principal aliciente que ofrece la vida; se esfuman casi todos los valores intelectuales y falta una auténtica razón para vivir. La visualización no puede sustituir la presencia personal. Incluso los propios solarianos se dan cuenta de que la visualización no es más que un sentido a larga distancia.
~ Isaac Asimov
Tendríamos el infinito en nuestras manos. Cada mundo tendría su propio Tiempo, sus valores, la oportunidad de buscar la Felicidad a su manera y en su ambiente. Hay muchas clases de Felicidad, de Bien, una infinita variedad de propósitos. ¡Ese es el Estado Básico de la Humanidad!
~ Isaac Asimov
Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.
~ Isaac Asimov
Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
~ Isabel Allende
para él la igualdad no sólo era posible, sino inevitable, y la practicaba como una religión.
~ Isabel Allende