Lost Values Quotes

All the celebrated technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty, which no one could have imagined even as late as the nineteenth century.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

I think I'm a very kindhearted person, I don't like to hurt people's feelings. If I do, it's not intentionally and I feel a lot of people nowadays have lost that.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.