Quotes About Values

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.