Family Values Quotes - Page 4

• What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.

  David Elkind

  Religious, Children, Honesty

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• A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

  Ali Sina

  Fall, Islam, Morality

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Talking about morality can be offensive. Morality is a politically incorrect subject. Many people are genuinely offended if someone speaks of morality and family values. It is okay if you talk about your sexual fantasies and deviances. This is called "liberation". But you would be frowned at if you talk about morality in public. Then you'd be accused of trying to impose your values on others.

  Ali Sina

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Empathy - that is, caring about people and acting responsibly on that care, not just for yourself, but for others - this is something that Barack Obama understands very well. He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago for ten years. As an expert on the Constitution and on our family values, he understands very well that the country is fundamentally about caring for one another. The day after his speech, he was interviewed on CNN, and Anderson Cooper asked him what patriotism was. He said patriotism begins with caring for one another.

  George Lakoff

  Country, Caring, People

  Source: truth-out.org

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• The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Mean, Gay

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• It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.

  Hillary Clinton

  Enough, About Family, Values

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• You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Children, Giving

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• Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

  Ralph Nader

  Injustice, Household, Values

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

  Paul Johnson

  Believe, Scary, Affair

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• I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

  Byron Dorgan

  Strong, Eight, Government

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• It certainly makes people question why a man who talks about family values all the time doesn't seem to care that his own sister, not to mention thousands of other Americans, can lose her job just because of her sexual orientation.

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Jobs, Men, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

  Michael M. Honda

  Mother, Thinking, Equal Pay

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• I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

  Jose Carreras

  Strong, Theatre, Lucky

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• Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

  William J. Clinton

  Family, Government, Politician

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• You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Hate, Mean, People

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• It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.

  Alex Bruce

  Religious, Winning, Ecosystems

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• To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is cruel as well as unconstitutional. Classifying some families, and especially their children, as of lesser value should be repugnant to all those in this nation who profess to believe in "family values."

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

  Jean Charest

  Family, Fall, Roots

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• Hillary Clinton's opponent in the U.S. Senate race, the Republican she's going to be running against, has been married three times, had an affair with his chief of staff, had two kids with her while still married to his second wife. This is the first time in history that a Clinton is the 'family values' candidate.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Kids, Two

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• I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Love, Life, Family

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• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Equality, Organization, Example

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• I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Marriage, Country, Soulmate

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• Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teeth, Generations, Agendas

  "Mothers in Chains". www.salon.com. May 24, 2005.

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• But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Country, Home, America

  "A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. August 1997.

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