To know that candles are expensive is of no value to the blind man.
If you want to know the value of money, go and borrow some.
Would a just God sentence a morally good individual to hell for never having heard of him? And for that matter, would a just God expel a morally good individual to hell who has heard of Jesus, but simply finds no evidentiary reason to believe? Accord...
My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?' And the answer is, 'Of course they can.' Consequently, I think it’s immoral to harm them. And ...
What's to rationalize? You mean you shouldn't pray if you haven't got your s--t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray, or people who talk about their religion must be...
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way un which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity -even under the most difficult circumstances- to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dign...
Patrick Bateman: Come on, Bryce. There are a lot more important problems than Sri Lanka to worry about. Timothy Bryce: Like what? Patrick Bateman: Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world h...
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
My penis is empty, like a straw. That’s the real value of it.
. . . I don’t believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box.
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
