B. Carroll Reece Quotes

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

Ethics are more important than laws.

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

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.