Quotes About Values

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

The integrity of the game is everything.

That is why I took up the gun — not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk … about how we can make the world a better place.

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores."

??tia mai s?raci au ?i chestii... idealuri... valori. Respect? fel de fel de lucruri. Cu cît e?ti mai bogat ?i mai sus, cu atît respec?i mai pu?ine chestii. ??tia au ?i un cult al muncii, care, între noi fie zis, e cumplit?, e un blestem, dar d? ?i unele satisfac?ii... Totul se pl?te?te ?i orice plat? î?i cî?tig? ceva. Eu am cî?tigat pl?ceri; dar sunt mereu tot alea. Te plictise?ti.

Am prea pu?in? via?? ca s?-mi pot îng?dui a o mânji prin compromisuri...

Her mesele bizim ölçülerimizi al?r.

Kad?n?n a?k ahlak? bazan a?k?n d???nda ahlak tan?maz.

?nsan ya geleneklere kar?? koyup aç?k ve cesur ya?amal? yahut da inand??? baz? k?ymetler varsa, onlar için fedakarl?k yapmal?. En çirkin ?ey ikisine birden sahip ç?kan mürailiktir.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

Is this one of those situations that involves "ethics"? 'Cause I'm a cat , you know. I've never been very good at those.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

Quantum objects may in principle have a number of observable properties, but we can't gather them all (Copenhagenists might in fact say 'elicit them') in a single go, because they can't all exist at once. And by gathering some we may scramble the values of others.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

The message is constantly displayed on television commercials, where the motive of keeping up with (rather than cooperating with) the Jonses is treated as an unquestioned value.

now that many schools receive funding based on test results, teachers teach for those outcomes, not for curiosity or critical thinking, nor for learning nonspecific principals or values. Such training to focus on fact memorization lowers the intellectual level of the teachers themselves, not just their bored students.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

Art is always tempted to glory in itself, and nearly every form of art has been used to communicate values that are contrary to Scripture. Art is as fallen as any other aspect of human existence. This fallenness perverts the arts against fulfilling their original purpose and prevents us from embracing them uncritically.

They toured India, after calls for Maud to be banned from performing there; imperial values imagined that Maud's erotic dance would excite the 'rich native' to an unsafe degree

If all the smart restaurants were closed down, the 'flapper' trade would probably close down also, and the flappers, disdaining the more humble eating-houses they were wont to frequent, may even return to their homes, which they left to imperil, if not to sacrifice, their chastity.

what sort of mothers can these girls have? The answer would supply an explanation of, but no excuse for, our national decadence and degradation

he sees that it does not accord with the practices of the sage-kings of old and does not promote the benefit of the people in the world today. And so our teacher Mozi says, "Musical performances are wrong!