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Quotes About Values

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
~ Edmund Burke
For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right
~ Edmund Spenser
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
~ Edmund Waller
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
~ Edward Abbey
A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.
~ Elizabeth Aston
I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.
~ Emma Goldman
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
~ Ernestine Rose
I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.
~ Everett Dirksen
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?
~ Gail Parent
Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Gary Bauer
Man is a moral being.
~ Gaspar Noe
A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.
~ Geoff Nicholson
Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.
~ George Bernard Shaw
HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
~ George Herbert
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy
~ Lili Taylor
I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.
~ Lizzy Caplan
Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
~ Loudon Wainwright III