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Quotes About Values

It is ironic in today's world, but the core values, the protection of the law which we had thought to be universally accepted, has been seriously breached by the war on terrorism.
~ Malcolm Fraser
I don't have the privilege of time to meet everyone all the time. But, I've always said that my dad is one of the most important people in my universe, and if someone's important to him, I respect that person.
~ Shruti Haasan
My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we have a hard time holding on to. They provide a space to question whatever we are doing in the name of things we say we believe in or might believe in.
~ Abhijit Banerjee
I say that a university is a house of knowledge, not for showing off Dolce & Gabbana bags. Students should go to university in uniform.
~ Ramzan Kadyrov
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.
~ Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
~ Terry Eagleton
There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
~ Paula Deen
I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women's vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women's health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.
~ Christie Hefner
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
~ Epictetus
I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
~ Jimmy Connors
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
~ Alice James
When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
~ Marya Mannes
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
~ Milo Ventimiglia
In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?
~ Paul Gauguin
Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.
~ Alexis Arguello
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.
~ Ronald Reagan
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
~ William Faulkner
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
~ C. S. Lewis
There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.
~ John Ralston Saul
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
~ Kathleen Turner
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
~ Golda Meir