Quotes About Values

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

There are things worth fighting for.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

Ho abbastanza carattere per cui aggiungere anche la bellezza all'insieme sarebbe pura avidità.

What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?' My

No," I said. "He's a Rabinowitz. He's a semi-decent

But secularists are not value free; their values are simply grounded in earthly concerns rather than in anticipation of heavenly rewards or fear of infernal punishments.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Yet where lies the line between compromise and surrender? Between relinquishing the ideal of perfection on the one hand, and losing one's integrity on the other?

Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.

Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good.

Monuments are not about history; they are values made visible.

We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but they grew up in the Depression, aware of the quicksilver nature of money, and they learned the hard way that you shouldn't buy what you could borrow. Because of that frugality, or perhaps independent of it, they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it.