Quotes About Values

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Families are the bedrock of our society.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to what made this country what it is. We're a pluralistic society in its functions.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement