Quotes About Values

So if you don't fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

Si la hipocresía es la distancia que hay entre nuestros principios y nuestro comportamiento, es muy fácil no ser nunca un hipócrita; basta con no tener ningún principio.

The failure to tell a new story has been matched by an equally remarkable omission: the failure to discern and describe the values and principles that might inform our politics.

They used to advise young men to avoid gambling, drink, and women. And they were probably right in their time. But the single most important thing in the world today is not to read The New Yorker.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels.

Better a beggar than a thief.

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Would you throw your life away for pride?

Si media cebolla está podrida, la cebolla está podrida. Un hombre es bueno o malo...

Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?

Better to live shamed than die proud.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.