Quotes About Values

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

I think in this day and age it's very important.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

It is well established among us that you may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes.

Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run.

we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousands of public dollars on "education" —and not a dime or a thought on character.

People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

It is well established among us that you may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes.

Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.