Quotes About Values

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.