Quotes About Values

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.