Quotes About Values

men of the modern world exist in a continual and flagrant antagonism between their consciences and their way of life."1 There

Consider a daily newspaper or television newscast and eliminate from it every report that presupposes a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Very little will be left.

One of the greatest weaknesses in our teaching and leadership today is that we spend so much time trying to get people to do things good people are supposed to do, without changing what they really believe.

When a question has no correct answer; there is only one honest response.

We are who we protect, what we stand up for." -- Sophie, via Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code

Los lugares más oscuros del infierno están reservados para aquellos que mantienen su neutralidad en épocas de crisis de moral

Well, the meek were supposed to inherit the earth, but instead it has gone to the young—the technically inclined, those who stare into video screens rather than into their own souls.

Por fortuna parati, nosotros los británicos no juzgamos el grado de civilización de un hombre por la amabilidad con que trata a sus amigos, sino por la compasión que demuestra para con sus enemigos

are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Churchill. Langdon needed a moment to realize she was referring to none other than Winston Churchill himself, the celebrated British statesman who, in addition to being a military hero, historian, orator, and Nobel Prize–winning author, was an artist of remarkable talent. Langdon now recalled Edmond quoting the British prime minister once in response to a comment someone made about religious people hating him: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something!

Todo el mundo respeta a aquellos que se rigen por un código". —¿Otra

Religion cannot claim morality as its own...

Everyone respects those who live by a code . - Luis Avila

baseball freely admits that the sport--like civilized society--is crawling with bums.

dogs or cats, 90 Day Fiancé or Selling Sunset. But they can't pause for a moment to ask themselves if this otherwise lovely person they're dating fucks them the way they like to be fucked, and fucks them as often as they'd like to be fucked, because that would make them shallow, sex-obsessed perverts.

Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence value of any thing is infinite—thus the "mountains in the sun"—and being infinite, equal to every other thing and all truths.

The first Dying Earth sold three billion copies," I said. "Pilgrim's Progress," she said. "Mein Kampf. Once in a century. Maybe less." "But it sold three billion Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

realized that in the end – when all else is dust – loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith – true faith – was trusting in that love.

For leaders to get results they need all three kinds of focus. Inner focus attunes us to our intuitions, guiding values, and better decisions. Other focus smooths our connections to the people in our lives. And outer focus lets us navigate in the larger world. A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

La mente creativa es un don sagrado y la mente racional un sirviente fiel –dijo, en cierta ocasión, Albert Einstein–. Por ello resulta muy curioso que hayamos creado una sociedad que, olvidando el don, haya acabado honrando al sirviente.»

Ética para un nuevo milenio. Si

porque constituye el vínculo entre los sentimientos, el carácter y los impulsos morales.

Una persona muy autoconsciente sabe adónde se dirige y por qué; así, por ejemplo, se mostrará firme al rechazar una oferta laboral que resulte tentadora desde un punto de vista económico pero no encaje con sus principios u objetivos a largo plazo.