Quotes About Values

Until you ask why bury a bucket when there's a million places you could hide it. And hoarding wealth isn't part of the Navajo Way anyway. There're always kinfolks who need it.

Don't think a man don't care about one goat because he's got a thousand of 'em," Hosteen Nakai would say. "He's got a thousand because he cares more about goats than he cares about his relatives.

Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.

By whiteman's standards, Leaphorn thought, Bowlegs had a net worth of maybe one hundred dollars. The white world's measure of his life. And what would the Navajo measure be? The Dinee made a harder demand—that man find his place in the harmony of things.

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

What is right and what is wrong is a very sensitive matter.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

A paradigm is a constellation of concepts and values shared by a community of people.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

Now think of it this way: which do you think would be better for Dottie, havin' ten thousand dollars so maybe she could go to that Amazon school, or havin' a beat-up, old, ugly, naggy, alcoholic

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.

But Mama taught me that a girl's good looks soon fade, while what's in her heart just keeps getting more beautiful.

How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.

being a good dragon is about the choices you make no matter where you are or who raised you or how.

Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow.

I don't mean to sound sleezy but tease me. I don't want it if it's that easy.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

There has been a precipitous decline in the character of our people. We are not the people our parents were. We are not even the people we used to be.

In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.