Quotes About Values

A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

The Archbishop of Canterbury even endorsed the idea. Melanie Phillips, author of Londonistan, (Encounter Books, 2006) writes that "Instead of acknowledging that Muslim values must give way wherever they conflict with the majority culture, they believe that the majority should instead defer to Islamic values and allow Muslims effectively autonomous development.

But what we have done as a nation, that is much worse in the grand scheme of things, is that we have exported our idol worship to large portions of the globe. Today one can watch the latest American situation comedy (laced with repetitive, pervasive sexual content) in nations in most areas of the globe, appropriately translated into the local language. One can watch the latest movie from Hollywood on a silver screen in movie theaters in any developed nation.

The common mantra of today is that 'we can't legislate morality,' though, of course, every law is a statement of what that nation's people believe to be moral or immoral. A nation's views of moral conduct will show up in its laws.

who's to blame for our declining culture? Has the church in America become "Christianity Light," or like the Coke product, "Christianity Zero?

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

Fundamentalism only ever deepens public hypocrisy, not public morality.

When employees hold the same core beliefs and values, you need fewer policies to control or manage work. Instead, your employees have an innate ability to deliver solutions and customer service that match your desired culture.

Anyone can copy your strategy, but no one can duplicate your culture!

The top three variables on the "what traits do mate pairs most match up on" list are drinking, religion, and … drum roll … politics. (Education level is fourth.)

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

Whatever a guy does with other guys, if he does it for money, that dont make him queer. Youre still straight. It's when you start doing it for free, with other young guys, that you start growing wings." . .

The ancient Greeks told of a philosopher eating bread and lentils for dinner. He was approached by another man, who lived sumptuously by flattering the king. Said the flatterer, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." The philosopher replied, "If you would learn to live on lentils, you would not have to give up your independence in order to be docile and acquiescent to the king.

I'm against abortion as a form of birth control, and I basically hold to the Reagan position.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

A Connally! Always remember that I raised you to be a Connally!

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Whereas in the past a worker lived in his or her work, he or she now works in order to live outside his or her work.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.