Quotes About Values

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

As people's lifestyles have improved, they've become more and more sensitive toward animals. It's becoming a universal value, like Western classical music.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't spank. They were really raised in a half-Asian family.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.

Terrorism attacks Jews, but it targets all countries and Western values. Israel is just an hors d'oeuvre.

If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.

We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.

Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

I was happy at ESPN, I was succeeding at ESPN and I love sports. But the very foundational principles, set aside politics, the bedrocks of Western Civilization are being vilified.

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it's immoral, and you are getting fired.

We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Yes, the American people want us to legislate, they want us to insist on furthering their set of values, but they also want us to resist and exercise our oversight powers.