Imposed Values Quotes

I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

I part with them because they believe that their values are the only acceptable set of values and should be imposed by the government.

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.