Quotes About Values

if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam." It

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

Was man liebt, betoniert man nicht.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs

Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly insisted that the National Security Council specify as "the basic objective of our national security policies: maintaining the security of the United States and the vitality of its fundamental values and institutions." To achieve the former without securing the latter, he warned, would be to "destroy what we are attempting to defend.

We do wish for easy answers, for silver bullets, for proven programs, for implementable solutions. When paradigms shift, when deep change is needed, our very assumptions, values and behaviors are questioned. The real challenge is to re-invent the very world we live in.

At times of disorientation people need to go back to identity, purpose, and context.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors offered him a six-figure sum in recognition of his pioneering wartime inventions. Jefferis was gratified but turned it down. 'His Edwardian principals of right and wrong were very strong,' said his son John.16 He did not believe he should profit from having helped to defeat Hitler.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

De fato, o marketing político corresponde à instalação das sociedades democráticas na era do consumo moda: foram os valores inerentes à sua ordem, o hedonismo, o lazer, o jogo, a personalidade, o psicologismo, a cordialidade, a simplicidade, o humor, que impulsionaram a reestruturação das declarações políticas.

Enterramos o machado de guerra a propósito da ditadura do proletariado e da Revolução, mas novos antagonismos surgiram: pena de morte, imigração, prisôes, aborto, droga, eutanásia, energia nuclear, meios de procriação, proteção social, seleção, questões sobre as quais é inútil esperar poder encontrar qualquer unanimidade; nossas sociedades estão entregues ao dilaceramento das perspectivas.

Our beliefs define us. And who wants to be undefined in today's world? So we scrape together convenient truths and build our identities out of them.

The best way to teach is how you live your life.

La experiencia me enseñó que, ciertamente, se puede ganar una guerra con cualquier clase de personas, pero no se puede construir un sistema justo, con valores éticos, si quienes se proponen hacerlo carecen de ellos o sacrifican esos mismos valores en el camino.

yo os pregunto, señor podestá, si él ha tomado de mí siempre lo que ha necesitado y le ha gustado, ¿qué debía hacer yo (o debo) con lo que me sobra? ¿Debo arrojarlo a los perros? ¿No es mucho mejor servírselo a un hombre noble que me ama más que a sí mismo que dejar que se pierda o se estropee?

La civilización le ha corrompido, le ha hecho volverse humanitario y vegetariano.

Mercadores Quando Napoleão, por despeito, chamava «país de comerciantes» à Inglaterra, ressurgia nele o remoto antagonismo entre o fidalgo que paga com o seu sangue e o lojista que paga com o ouro o sangue dos outros.