Values Conflict Quotes

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

I have my life. I have my values. And compared with much of society, especially football, that is radical.

What takes place in America today was caused by the flagrant interference on the part of successive American governments into others’ business. These governments imposed regimes that contradict the faith, values, and lifestyle of the people.

For Israel there is tension between our values and the brutal reality [of the Middle East]

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe.

All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

You either have to choose your soul or you have to choose your bank.

In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.

The culture war in America can best be described by the battle between workin' hard, playin' hard s - tkickers that bust our ass to make America strong by earning our own way and kickin' maximum ass versus soulless weaklings who have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to a free ride.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

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

Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.

You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those - we don't believe - are the values of our country.

Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.