Value System Quotes

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal

Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.

You're going to make decisions that are not in your best financial interest because they make you happier or more fulfilled or because of your values. You're going to do that because you're a good, smart person.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success.

I kind of know who I am as a man. There's a value system I believe in.

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Architecture is an expression of values.

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

When I was a kid, I used to think about what my worth was.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

Where there is no God, all is permitted.

When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

Ethics to me is very important.

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.

There's a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that's mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it.