Quotes About Values

hogar, país? Es posible que los seres humanos se den cuenta algún día de que todos estos valores son abstractos y que para vivir sólo necesitamos, en realidad, un lugar habitable".

Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.

The destinies of peoples are determined by their character and not by their government.

If every married woman was given a million pounds today, how many marriages would still be intact by tomorrow?

The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of events and values, the world itself, requires another.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." —Halford E. Luccock

Gossip's not amusement, Uncle Zeke.' Arabella was grave. 'It's an essential part of social life.' 'Why?' 'It keeps up the moral values of a community by picking out the deviants and criticising their behaviour.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

No es casual que dos valores constantes del discurso populista sean, de un lado, la estimulación del resentimiento social, del otro, la promesa de reparación o revancha.

Esa sociedad ha democratizado su sistema electoral, pero no sus valores y su cultura cívica. Era demasiado moderna para vivir en el molde de PRI. No es suficientemente moderna para construir una democracia estable.

Gresham's law, extended: Bad manners drive out good manners.

is devoted to civilization or anything else outside himself, and that's the mark of the barbarian.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

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Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.

By their dependence on the spoken word for information, people were drawn together into a tribal mesh . . . the spoken word is more emotionally laden than the written. . . . Audile-tactile tribal man partook of the collective unconscious, lived in a magical integral world patterned by myth and ritual, its values divine.3

Transvaluation of values," a term derived from Nietzsche (who derided Christianity's embrace of the weak), is the heart of Niebuhr's perspective on the cross.

Well, I tell you, Son. I've had my share of fighting. It never proves anything. Anything can fight. Dogs, cats, skunks, and such things. But a man is supposed to be different. He's supposed to have some sense. I don't mind a good fight if there's something to fight for. I'd fight for you and your mother and our country, but I won't fight for foolishness

those ideas of dignity and generosity that were becoming increasingly rare in a frantic world.

Life's more important than a living. So many people who make a living are making death, not life. Don't ever join them. They're the gravediggers of our civilization -- the safe men, the compromisers, the money-makers, the muddlers-through.

One of the lovely joys of growing old was to add to this list of trivial things one didn't care about, so that one had more time to care for things that were not trivial.