Quotes About Values

So we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe—and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.

Republicans don't just have bad ideas; at this point, they are, necessarily, bad people.

The acquisition of material things has become the hallmark of the shallow life.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

In brief, death control goes with the grain, birth control against it.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled;

All TV is educational. The question is, 'What are we teaching?

In his clear view of the world, free from illusion--suddenly saw that the day of men like the Colonel was over. The Great War had created a new world in which the values of the Colonel and his kind had become outdated, even dangerous, for they assumed that men still adhered to a code of honour simply because they belonged to a particular class. And this was no longer true.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...

We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don't understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

Some of my friends are very poor, the only thing they have is money.

What she was saying reminded me of the scene in Gone With the Wind, where the town's most successful madam is trying to make a contribution to the war effort, and the proper slave-owning Confederate ladies refuse it on the grounds that her money is tainted. That always cracks me up. She earns her money with sex, and they earn their money breeding people, and her money's no good.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Peter groaned loudly. Sonia Pan! She's ugly. Mris. Liang would not yield. Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money. It would be no use for her to waste money on herself, Louise murmured.

Yuan could not for his life say, "This man is rich and evil, and this man is poor and good," and so he was spoiled for any cause-making, however great the cause.

The SOUL of a NATION is found in its PEOPLE.

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.