Steven Tyler Quotes

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

My grandparents came from a typical Marathi family, where they respect the value of rules and regulations.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

I don't support gay marriage. I'm just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.