Quotes About Values

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.