Values Quotes

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a pers...

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night...

It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city gr...

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its valu...

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate w...

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate w...

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values again...

You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little...

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may ...

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to...

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

"If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to opinions, you will never b...

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changi...

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the trut...

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

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtf...

Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversi...

Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the...

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I belie...

...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramot...

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, wit...

In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to thin...

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless w...

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I w...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have fo...

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction...

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

The anti-mind is the anti-life.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence...

Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is ...

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his h...

Reason is your means of survival — so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or no...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given t...

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed...

Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need...

Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not ma...

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your h...

When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ...

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for ...

To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because...

The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare...

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationalit...

But of all the deadly theories by means of which you are now being destroyed, I would like to warn y...

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

We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in...

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our ...

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall to...

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone w...

We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, ...

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as...

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get ple...

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

All that is gold does not glitter...

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do ...

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calcul...

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal...

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

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy b...

A gentleman is not a pot.

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner ...

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she sho...

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the r...

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

When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because t...