Quotes About Values

Germany achieved unification as an affirmation of liberal democracy; it reaffirmed its commitment to European unity as a project of common values and shared development.

as políticas europeias consagram um modelo de tolerância e de inclusão que chega a assumir contornos de falta de vontade para afirmar os valores caracteristicamente europeus.

Almost as if according to some natural law, in every century there seems to emerge a country with the power, the will, and the intellectual and moral impetus to shape the entire international system in accordance with its own values.

World order cannot be achieved by any one country acting alone. To achieve a genuine world order, its components, while maintaining their own values, need to acquire a second culture that is global, structural, and juridical—a concept of order that transcends the perspective and ideals of any one region or nation.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.

Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.

Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is appearance only, for man is a spiritual being destined for eternity, exhaustively accountable to his Creator-Lord.

The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith.

Culture is "lived religion". It is the form that religion takes in the lives of men.

I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.

In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.

The man who kan ware a paper collar a hole week and keap, it klean, aint fit for enny thing else.