Quotes About Values

In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Money has no moral opinions.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.

I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.

Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.

Scelgo i miei amici per la loro bellezza, le mie conoscenze per la loro rispettabilità, e i miei nemici per la loro intelligenza.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.

Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.

There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.