Quotes about Values
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our world is going through a crisis of dehumanization, breakup of family life, a general loss of moral values.
- Edith Stein
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
- Edith Wharton
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
- Edith Wharton
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
- Edith Wharton
Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.
- Edith Wharton
What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?
- Edith Wharton
A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.
- Edith Wharton
where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.
- Edmund Burke
No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
- Edward Welch
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
- Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
- Albert Einstein