Quotes about Values

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run.

People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.

Character is always more caught than taught.

What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.