Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places...

To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is...

I don’t know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value...

By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

Enttäuschung und Frustration werden […] alle erleben, die sich wie im Märchen danach sehnen, Glück in einem Schlaraffenland zu finden … Nur, dass unser Schlaraffenland nicht ein großer Berg von süßem Brei ist … wir...

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange...

We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they’ve been raised to be unafraid….I didn’t grow up feeling oppressed. I didn’t grow up feeling...

Money is only a human invention.

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay...

Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for...

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

Porque el joven era consciente a veces de que el mundo en que vive es un laberinto de valores cuya importancia intuye apenas vagamente y que, por lo tanto, sólo pueden dejar de ser valores...

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to...

REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others… Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams’ thinking skills and Mindsets.

I believe strongly that my books are entertainment. I hope you might learn a thing or two while reading them, but first and foremost, my job is to entertain you. If I’m waving a flag...

Except now everything is digital even murder. There is a record for everything under the sun from the moon and back whether we like it or not. The image that I have of the future...

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

Happy endings happen every day we share our generosity, peace, compassion, kindness, respect, timeless love and joy with our love ones, friends and others.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

Environment provides us with many cultures. From each we identify our beliefs that give us our values. From our values we pick up our choices and our choices bring out our character. Our characters make...

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And...

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

The classical man’s worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man’s worst fear is just death

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is...

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare...

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them...

The best indicator of a man’s philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts.

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of...

Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that...

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who’s not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he’s a criminal, in a green costume he’s a hero who gets a parade and a...

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

What infinite heart’s-easeMust kings neglect, that private men enjoy!And what have kings, that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?What kind of god art thou, that suffer’st moreOf...

I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the rest of their lives—a question of which no...

Facts and values are entangled in science. It’s not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are…It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have...

Living in a way that reflects one’s values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and...