Quotes About Values

A well-known Egyptian academic traces hostility towards the US to its support for 'every possible anti-democratic government in the Arab-Islamic world..... ... When we hear American officials speaking of freedom, democracy and such values, they make terms like these sound obscene.

Since democratic leaders can't wait for the people to arrive at even general understanding and have to engineer consent to socially constructive goals and values, some obvious questions arise. Who makes the decisions about these goals and values? What factors enter into the decisions of "democratic leaders"? How is their "responsibility" and dedication to the public interest established?

conformist intellectuals, the ones who support official aims and ignore or rationalize official crimes, are honored and privileged in their own societies, while the value-oriented are punished in one way or another. The

As a child, Chomsky was influenced by the radical Jewish intellectual culture in New York City, where he regularly visited newsstands and bookstores with anarchist literature. According to Chomsky, this was a "working class culture with working class values, solidarity, socialist values."4

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Like he cared about a lot of stupid settlers and Indians and soldiers who hung around out here before he was even born. Hell, before his prehistoric grandparents had been born. Who gave a shit about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bullshit. He cared about X-Men and the box scores.

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, she repeated, in this one area. I don't think we should live together. I think we should get married. That's just another… The words sank in, momentarily dulled his brain. Whoa. Yes, and with that scintillating response

If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her.

My family's just as important as yours, and I've got as much money and prestige." "Money and prestige don't buy good manners. You aren't showing any at the moment.

If the Moral Law doesn't exist, then there's no moral difference between the behavior of Mother Teresa and that of Hitler.

difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.

Workshop leaders working with business men and women also need to develop the inner empowerment to inquire deeply into corporate values. Mindfulness courses need to expand the vision to address institution problems not just personal stress in the workplace. There is the sickness of greed and aggression in capitalism. Have courses, workshop and programmes become another marketable product to avoid challenging business ethics and policies?

When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

Ištisos kartos užsiima darbais, kuri? neken?ia, tik tod?l, kad nusipirkt?, ko jiems iš tikr?j? nereikia.

dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.

The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.

Do something only for money, and you're less likely to do it for free

Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.