Quotes About Values

Do we not sit for hours at a time before our computer or TV screens, amused at the debased activities we see, some of which might have made even the ancient pagans blush? The debasing goings-on draw our transfixed attention, in many cases resulting in turning over to their mesmerizing devices our children who desperately need nurturing. Are these not altars from which emanate the images made like corruptible man?

We would never allow child sacrifice, which is one of the sure manifestations of a totally reprobate civilization. Really?

listened instead to the left-wing, anti-biblical teachings of Dr. Benjamin Spock in the '50s.

In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often than not they are the occasion of profitless dispute, and when invoked as the conditions of the obligation to observe the conditions prescribed by lex they positively pervert the association: they are the recipe for anarchy" (OH 16o).

Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which I belong and in terms of which I define my identity.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Since when did pursuit of quality of life trump actual quaility of life?

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Family is important above all else.

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Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.

Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired.

Not to attend at the door of the wealthy, and not to use the voice of petition?these constitute the best life of a man.

[Of two suitors for his daughter's hand:] I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Intelligence is a moral category.

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

Europe has changed without knowing how to conserve: that is its tragedy.

The climate of moral, cultural, and intellectual relativism – a relativism that began as a mere fashionable plaything for intellectuals – has been successfully communicated to those least able to resist its devastating practical effects.

Life is conceived as a vast supermarket through which one moves with one's shopping trolley, fetching down ways of life from shelves marked "Existential choices.

It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.

When young people want to praise themselves, they describe themselves as 'nonjudgmental.' For them, the highest form of morality is amorality.

That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos—that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished—is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism.

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.