Quotes About Values

Todas as éticas são evolutivas: o que hoje é normal, amanhã será horrendo e o que hoje é crime, amanhã será banal.

Within the individual life span as well, each person becomes exposed with age to increasingly contradictory goals, to incompatible opportunities for action. A child's options are usually few and coherent; with each year, they become less so. The earlier clarity that made spontaneous flow possible is obscured by a cacophony of disparate values, beliefs, choices, and behaviors. Few

We have come to accept that our morality simply no longer has currency outside our own culture.

This is not to imply that a return to the rigid values and limited choices of the past would be preferable—even if that were a possibility, which it is not. The complexity and freedom that have been thrust upon us, and that our ancestors had fought so hard to achieve, are a challenge we must find ways to master.

true, they abandon faith in everything else they have learned. Deprived of the customary supports that cultural values had given them, they flounder in a morass of anxiety and apathy.

In the United States and the other technologically advanced societies, individualism and materialism have almost completely prevailed over allegiance to the community and to spiritual values.

Given that (a) early feminists were steadfastly opposed to censorship and abortion, and (b) modern feminists are steadfastly committed to censorship and abortion, is it fair to say the feminist movement has lost its way? In other words, Diane, why can't you be more like Susan B. Anthony?

Christians can influence the world for the better again. But it will mean making a commitment to stand by a worldview that current society often rejects and ridicules.

We are creating a culture, even if it's unintentional. The question is, do we like the culture we are creating?

He who mistreats his own family is not to be trusted as a friend.

What you believe and what you trust are always revealed in how you live and act.

Our society had become antagonistic and biased against the principled and moral members of society.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.

quite compelling its admonition to use wealth as a means to be generous and not just as an end in itself.

Our generation has learned to hold to the standard of each other instead of the standard of God. That is the travesty: God is no longer the standard; we are.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

Ethics really isn't about agreeing to a set of principles. It's about changing the way you act.

The only way to create an ethical culture is to live it.

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.