Muqaddasi Quotes

Law for the Protection of Values from Shame

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Look closely at what is dubbed the American model, and what do you see? Drugs, alcohol, drunken driving, sex on television, pornographic films ... AIDS which is caused by the spread of homosexuality ... women and men kissing in public, and growing poverty due to economic policies geared exclusively to serve the well off.... Their very technology is saturated with eroticism, and that is what they export to Egypt in the form of movies and television serials

This proposal will destroy our Islamic, social and family values by stripping men of their humanity when they surprise their wives or female relatives committing adultery.

Thro’ want of Ministers to marry and thro’ the licentiousness of the People, many hundreds live in Concubinage – swopping their Wives as Cattel, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians.

Although the world has undergone many changes, both good and bad, in the past century, change need not imply the loss of traditional values. Nor is progress another word for moral decay. It is not development and progress which jeopardize values and morality but rather the absence of a strong and secure moral foundation developed first and foremost in the family. Surely, it is possible for one to enjoy the conveniences of modern life-airplanes and automobiles, computers and cell phones, microwaves and VCRs-without losing one's sense of values. When we love God, love our families, we can enjoy life without betraying the practices of decency, without abandoning the traditions of our cultures.

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.

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

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition to these two he's also having a fling with a fringe tootsie, both the wife and the mistress are outraged and the combination lover, husband, and cheat may well wind up with a large French bread knife between his ribs.

I don’t drink to get drunk. That’s just not cute.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.