Quotes About Values

Do I like living with Daniel's family? No. Would I ever tell him that? No. I know I'm all about honesty and saying what I think, but sometimes people are more important than the truth.

I personally don't think a woman should ever live with a man unless they're married. I guess there are some really great guys out there who wouldn't take advantage of having a live-in cook and maid, but guess how those arrangements usually turn out?

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.

Prior to deciding whether science intrinsically tells the truth, we must ask, again and again, whether it is possible, or prudent, to isolate facts from values. This is a crucial question to ask, because it bears upon the kind of progressive society we want to promote.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Society's future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.