Modern Values Quotes

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Why gentyllmen in this present time be not equall in doctrine to the ancient noble men

Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

There is this debate over the world about whether Islam can be reconciled to modernism. But the American Moslem community has demonstrated how easily this has been done.

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.

I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.