Ian Paisley Quotes

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

I grew up in a very conservative home.

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

We have religious superstitions of the Middle Ages that shape our 21st century social policies.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin …

… a country's laws are written upon paper, and that its customs are engraved upon brass. One may play with the one, but not with the other. It is less risky for a stranger to dance upon our Constitution in the public square than to affront one of our solidified customs. The one is merely eminently respectable, the other is sacred.

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.

You have to accept that traditions exist, that people don't change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, and there was nothing really modern that went on under their roof. We watched television, but they were very picky about what we could watch - old Westerns and stuff that wasn't vulgar or violent at all.

It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between a man and a woman. Gays get full civil rights with civil partnerships anyway.

Many Saudi clerics believe that letting women drive means they will be free to leave the house whenever they like - something that will have a liberalizing and, therefore, unwanted effect on society.

I identify, I guess, as a conservative Catholic.

People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.

In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.

I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I lived a very, very Middle Eastern life until I was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'