Quotes About Values

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

We live in a society where we wake up our kids for school but not Fajr.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.