Quotes About Values

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

My Christian faith teaches me marriage is between man and a woman. I'm not evolving with the polls. I'm not changing like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.