Quotes about Values

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Once it was easy to know who were my people... I do not believe our wants have made all our lies holy.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man — by choice; he has to hold his life as a value — by choice; he has to learn to sustain it — by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues — by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.