Quotes About Values

One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

With one or two children at home, I feel that parents concentrate too much on them and hence children lose touch with reality. They get whatever they desire and fail to understand that in real life you may or may not get what you wish for.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it's about who can bid the highest. There's no personal interest. It's a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn't like much.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

I think, in general, as a writer, you can't really hide your values. They're always going to fall out onto the page, and I tend to trust that I don't have to force my ideals into the expression of what's going to happen naturally.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people.

All parents want their children to have respectable jobs that pay well. However, my parents are both open-minded and they respect the choice I made.

I have a lot of respect for everything my mom had to do. And she made sure I understood how to respect women in ways that some people don't. She opened my eyes.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and generosity of spirit.

Those fundamentally liberal values - openness, inclusion, internationalism - are what truly represent the best of Britain, and it's those values that I'm determined to fight for as leader of the Liberal Democrats.

When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.