Quotes About Values

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

The choices we make, make us. We

Ethics is a dream.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

There were only two things that mattered in his life: the union and his family. Believe it or not, as strong as he was for the union, his wife and his daughter and his son came first to him.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

What we do flows from who we are.

successful firms do flourish by holding fast to fundamental values: sticking to the right path; taking the long-term view; and insisting always on quality and excellence.

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Change begins at home

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Are pistols with revolving barrels, sword-sticks, bowie-knives, and such things, Institutions on which you pride yourselves? Are bloody duels, brutal combats, savage assaults, shooting down and stabbing in the streets, your Institutions! Why, I shall hear next that Dishonour and Fraud are among the Institutions of the great republic!' The

He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.

Sentimentalismos! No, no tengo tiempo para ello, pues me paso la vida ocupado en mover inmensas sumas de dinero.

What is substantially true of families in this respect, is true of a whole commonwealth.