Quotes About Values

No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

As for myself again if I cant be decorum's sworn enemy while savoring its fruits I simply see no place for me at all.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Loretta told me that she had heard on the radio about some percentage of the children in this country bein raised by their grandparents. I forget what it was. Pretty high, I thought. Parents wouldnt raise em. We talked about that. What we thought was that when the next generation come along and they dont want to raise their children neither then who is goin to do it? Their own parents will be the only grandparents around and they wouldnt even raise them.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment—only personal accomplishment is applauded.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

The second-century satirist Juvenal calculated that "musicians and popular athletes earn more in a day than the teacher does in a year (Sat. 7.175-177, 240-243).

What is within is more important than what is without.

I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have.

He didn't put it in these terms, and I'm not even sure if he knew this was what he was saying, but his message was: Act like a guy. It was a message that turned out to be invaluable.

They laughed, and they started making steak for dinner, or sausage, although, because of the kind of people they were (insufferable people, Nell thinks now), it had to be grass-fed or free-range or organic. And not too frequent.

Easterners didn't really care? Niceness for its own sake wasn't a virtue to them.

the erroneous notion that if one choice, one plan, was hard and the other was easy, doing the hard thing was inherently better—worthier, more upstanding.

The old ways, the old traditions are going by the board – young people have no respect for their elders any more –

If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily...

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.

Lads learn nothing nowadays, but how to recite poetry and play the fiddle.

All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.

Clifford had never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could, for money is the seal and stamp of success.

That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.