How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If...

We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest...

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.

You already have and are; your value is intrinsic.

Don’t just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore. You want to impact the lives of others in such a way that...

Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did. The question we need to ask is, how did we get to this...

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves.

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health....

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

That’s not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her?

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality…an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to...

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn’t go to school for that, but if you’re going to be there anyway, then that’s the most...

I’m a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I’m a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our spouses were not going to show up out of the blue. It was...

you can’t be value free when it comes to marriage

Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters – even to the very belief in life.

Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.

The one who lives solely with the many, solely with the best, lives only as briefly as that which he owns, passes his tests. The one living by his actions, and by his deeds, will...

misplaced” their values.

Es ist […] meine tiefe Überzeugung, dass die Freiheit das Allerwichtigste im Zusammenleben ist und erst Freiheit unserer Gesellschaft Kultur, Substanz und Inhalt verleiht.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can’t be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully; treating life, people, and choices...

Never compromise your values.

People don’t get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever’s left over to buy themselves nice things that make them feel less bad...

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn’t out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a...

Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel…Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don’t be having too much...

A society with values, is a rich society.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float on flowery beds of ease? Think Man was just made to be happy?- Why...

To the extent that we are trapped by the overvaluing, idealizing tendency, we are not free fully to celebrate the limited but real goods of creation. Idolatry by definition is not an accurate assessment of...

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved...

Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

If you live with values for yourself, then you become of great value to all who know you.

We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.

One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism...

There are two main predictions for the future; it’s either appealing or appalling.An appealing future is created by people who identify their real values in life and believe in what they can do.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today — gluttony, fornication,...

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that...

Charles is going to be fine,” said Annie. “Yep,” said Jack with a smile. “He never even knew that it was us who helped him.” “That’s the best way to help someone, I think,” said...

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

August: You know, somethings don’t matter that much…like the color of a house…But lifting a person’s heart–now that matters. The whole problem with people–“Lily: They don’t know what matters and what doesn’t…August:…They know what matters,...

Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted tomorrow.

If you’re honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you’re forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full...

Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a ‘footnote’ to colonial history about the ‘revolt’ of the American colonies....