Quotes About Values

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.