Quotes about Values
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
- Billy Graham
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
- Edmund Burke
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
- Francis Schaeffer
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
- Pope John Paul II
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
- Billy Graham
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.
- John Adams
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.
- Samuel Johnson
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
- Joseph Campbell
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.
- Marianne Williamson
Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
- Thomas Paine