Quotes About Values

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

GBeing on a spiritual path, or living according to one's faith, means that a person aligns his/her self to a set of principles and values different than the everyday waking consciousness of our modern culture.

You don't do violence, Francesca, not unless it's self-defense or in defense of our family. I won't have that on your soul. You're going to be my wife. The mother of my children. You're about love and softness. Not killing. Never that

You love family and are loyal to them no matter the circumstances. I am the same way. I want that trait in my wife. I want that instilled in my children.

We're all going to die someday, Sasha. We can only live our lives the best way we can. I believe in family.

Never had any trouble distinguishing between a varmint and a gentleman. Where I come from, we get rid of the varmints.

There is a special place in hell for people who bring children into this world solely for the sake of seeming better than they are.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on 'our side'. Is it?

It is supposed to be an axiom of Western civilization that the individual, or the truth, may not be sacrificed to hypothetical benefits such as order.

Christian America" that cares for people before they are born and after they are dead but is only interested in clerical coercion for the years in between

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Those who try to condemn or embarrass you by the company you keep will usually be found to be in very poor company themselves; in any case they are, as I was once taught to say, tackling the man and not the ball.

A high moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.

The values of solidarity, collectivism, and internationalism are not so much desirable as they are actually mandated by nature and reality itself.

Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.

Good and bad are just constructs people use.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps because they suspected that it could not withstand exposure to more vigorous ideas.

Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure.Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.