value conflict Quotes

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

Pluralism is political polytheism…. a unitary society cannot assimilate a welter of competing, incommensurate moral claims.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

In every generation good men have been perplexed by the paradoxical relation between moral and economic values.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

Immigrants want to change our values and our way of life.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Immigrants have to adopt our values, not the other way around.

When income level is the most important division in a society, politics is a struggle over how to redistribute money. When a society is more divided by education, politics becomes a war over values and culture. In country after country, people differ by education level on immigration, gender issues, the role of religion in the public square, national sovereignty, diversity, and whether you can trust experts to recommend a vaccine.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

It takes lives to save lives.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.