Vladimir Putin Quotes

What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.

Protestant Christianity ... tutored the first generations of Americans. It provided what we today would call the value system of the society.

Culture is more important than politics.

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.

Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.

I'd like to see us Pakistani actors do more work that reflects our culture, morals and values.

Ram Mandir is important to me because in a country where Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Jains are allowed to practice their faith anywhere, why should people from the majority have to yearn for a Ram temple?

There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.