Quotes About Values

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemporary realities and that we wish to live those lives in our terms.

This is a Christian world, you know. We only kill things that are useful or things we don't like.

There is no simple harmony between what is good for social or personal stability, for civic commitment and attachment, and what is good for genuine freedom of the mind.

Liberal democracy depends on knowledge and virtue, and both of these are now in short supply among the citizens of the developed world.

Unable to see their own biases, most people will simply drive each other crazy arguing rather than accept answers that contradict what they already think about the subject. The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt summed it up neatly when he observed that when facts conflict with our values, "almost everyone finds a way to stick with their values and reject the evidence."15

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important values associated with the dialogue that attends our system of checks and balances. The term "parliamentary reform" should not be allowed to cloud the fact that the critics advance a highly pro-executive position that would seek a strong government primarily by undercutting the independence of Congress.

Characer is much easier kept than recovered.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

It is not because the right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.

It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either side, doth not justify the means; for the lives of men are too

Of more worth is one honeset man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

She didn't have enough patience to try to explain to Christine the proper way to think about money. Among the old people, a person's status had never been determined by how much wealth he could accumulate, but how much he brought back to give away.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Il faut choisir entre le champagne pour quelques-uns ou l'eau potable pour tous.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.