Edith Starr Miller Quotes

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

This cleaning up of our culture must extend to nearly all domains. Theater, art, literature, movies, the press, posters, and window displays must be cleaned of the symptoms of a rotting world and put into the service of a moral idea of state and culture.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

We are not far from the kind of moral decay that has brought on the fall of other nations and peoples.

Our world has sprouted a weird concept of security and a warped sense of morality. Weapons are sheltered like treasures and children are exposed to incineration

The more my people work, the less vices they will have

I did not think we were as low as this! One member suggested that it should be reduced to ten, and oh my God, that it was hard for a man having a charge brought against him not to be able to plead the consent of a child like that.

There are certain seasons in the course of human affairs, when Genius, Virtue, and Patriotism, seems to nod over the vices of the times.

That nation is as depraved in its politics as in its morals.... England is the monster against which we should be always prepared.

Because of our sin, we as individuals and as a nation continue to experience a decline in moral values and beliefs. Our sinful behavior has resulted in increasing rates of unmarried adolescent and adult sexual activity, the birth of children to unwed mothers, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and decreasing marital fidelity. These are all signs of the decline of our culture.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

… the idea that children have rights they can claim against their parents, rather than obligations, seems to strike at the heart of the most valued social institution of all, the family.

Is there anything more important than a child?

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose.

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be left in the hands of the parents. They can be irresponsible too.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.