Quotes About Values

There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.

Creí que le importaba mucho la verdad. - Y me importa, pero una virtud llevada al extremo es un vicio. Si uno no entiende que hay cosas más importantes que la verdad no entiende lo importante que es la verdad.

La persuasión efectiva requiere interpretar las creencias y las expectativas, los valores y las emociones de tu audiencia. Puedes hacerlo cínicamente. Puedes usar la retórica para expresar tu punto de vista e incluso para cambiar el mundo. Pero con frecuencia el objetivo «es la gente, no las ideas», como dice David.

Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal.

Freedom is not as free as is generally thought: it produces antibodies which rebel against it. Truth, too, is threatened from within, like a state battling with its own police force. If values enjoyed total immunity, they would be as lethal as a scientific truth.

Just as medieval society was balanced on God and the Devil, so ours is balanced on consumption and its denunciation.

The West, having destroyed its own values, finds itself back at the zero degree of symbolic power, and in a turnabout, it wants to impose the zero degree on everyone. It challenges the rest of the world to annihilate itself symbolically as well. It demands that the rest of the world enter into its game, participate in the generalised, planetary exchange and fall into its trap…There is a moral and philosophical confrontation, almost a metaphysical one, beyond Good and Evil.

When God created man, He saw that he couldn't survive in that solitude and gave him a shadow. But since then man has never stopped selling it to the devil. I knew him in all conditions. Moist in sacrifice, hostile or welcoming, voracious or retractile, excited or indifferent, impulsive and without qualms, dreamy on his best day. That people who share the same genes should be separated by a moral chasm helps us to reassess the values in the name of which they are killing each other.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment. Manicheism is the irreconcilable antagonism between two forces. Morality is merely the opposition of two values. In the order of values, there is always a possibility of reconciliation. The disorder of forces is irreconcilable.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Mancando le qualità morali di misura precisa, se anche ci fosse l'accordo sul segno, come ci potrebbe essere sulla valutazione?

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one's life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.

He began to understand that just because some people thought certain behavior was wrong, that didn't make it so. A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would be necessarily lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

I wanted to escape from the cynical attitude of life where an action was deplored only when it did not bring material advantage.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone.

De ce sunt oare oamenii lasati s? creasc? f?r? a avea aparatura necesar? pentru a lua deciziile morale cele mai s?n?toase?

Los antiguos políticos hablaban continuamente de buenas costumbres y de virtud; los nuestros no hablan sino de comercio y de dinero. Uno

Endlich werden sie Ihnen sagen, daß die Menschen aller Zeiten einander gleichen, daß sie die nämlichen Tugenden und die nämlichen Laster haben, daß man die Alten nur bewundere, weil sie alt sind. Das ist ebenfalls nicht wahr; denn man that ehedem große Dinge mit kleinen Mitteln und heutiges Tages thut man gerade das Gegentheil.

Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?

Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin? I asked Mom. Not exactly, Mom said. God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Claus myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, Dad said, you'll still have your stars.

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, Dad said, you'll still have your stars.