Values
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It's
crucial to understand that as a society, we can
reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically,
and economically, and we can reorganize according
to our values.
-- Rebecca Adamson
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If
tolerance, respect and equity permeate family
life, they will translate into values that shape
societies, nations and the world.
-– Kofi Annan
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"Founded
on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship
and self-employment, underpinned by the values
of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative
movement can help pave the way to a more just
and inclusive economic order"
-- Kofi Annan
We
must restore the sacredness of the family as a
bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace
as well as in war.
-– Kofi Annan
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It
is within the family that children learn the values
that will guide them for the rest of their lives.
It is within the family that they form their earliest
relationships, learn to communicate with others
and interact with the world around them. It is
within the family that the notion of human rights
becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance,
respect and equity permeate family life, they
will translate into values that shape societies,
nations and the world.
-– Kofi Annan
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“We
must ensure that the global market is embedded
in broadly shared values and practices that reflect
global social needs, and that all the world's
people share the benefits of globalization.”
-- Kofi Annan
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We
are committed with our lives to building a different
model and a different future for humanity, the
Earth, and other species. We have envisaged a
moral alternative to economic globalization and
we will not rest until we see it realized.
-- Maude Barlow
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No
piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse
of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical
re-thinking of our values, priorities and political
systems is urgent.
-- Maude Barlow
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"Life
is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another
creature as you would your own because it is your
own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is
no less precious to the creature who owns it than
the largest."
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When
you become active in the system and communicate
to your representatives, and they don't vote in
accordance with your values, your responsibility
is to support candidates who will.
-- Joan Blades
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Nourishing
spirituality means cultivating the inward space,
the basis of which all things can be brought together.
It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation
and living reality in terms of values, inspiration,
and symbols of higher meaning.
-- Leonardo Boff
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To
be a soulful person means to go against all the
pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture
and instead treasure what is unique and internal
and valuable in yourself and your own personal
evolution.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
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The
human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna
are...the quintessential values through which
we affirm together that we are a single human
community.
-- Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, at the World Conferenceon Human
Rights, 14 June 1993
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In
his scientific genius, man has wrought material
miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed
nature and has developed great civilizations. But
he has never learned very well how to live with
himself. The values he has created have been predominantly
materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged
far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual
genius and has made little progress toward the realization
of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic
age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.
-- Ralph J. Bunche
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It
is impossible to build enduring institutions without
solid values. For us, the fundamental value is
that associated with democracy.
-- Fernando Cardoso
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Family
values represent the core values and guidelines
that parents and family members hold in high regard
for the well-being of the family. Sincere family
feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis
for true family values. While we have differences,
we remain "family" by virtue of our heart connection.
Family provides necessary security and support,
and acts as a buffer against external problems.
A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic
power that can get things done. They are the hope
for real security in a stressful world.
-- Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath
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Our
mission in this new century is clear. For good
or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We
can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to
spend our lives building a global community of
shared responsibilities, shared values, shared
benefits.
~ Bill Clinton
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"Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing?
No, for we have the capacity to design our own
future, to take a lesson from living things around
us and bring our values and actions in line with
ecological necessity. But we must first realize
that ecological and social and economic issues
are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution
to one without a solution to the others."
~ Jean-Michel
Cousteau
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There's
two globalizations... The elite globalization
represents minority forces. The elite globalization
is about making money... The people's globalization,
the democratic mass globalization is about life
values.
-- Kevin Danaher
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is achievable without public recognition, and the
world has many unsung heroes. The teacher who inspires
you to pursue your education to your ultimate ability
is a success. The parents who taught you the noblest
human principles are a success. The coach who shows
you the importance of teamwork is a success. The
spiritual leader who instills in you spiritual values
and faith is a success. The relatives, friends,
and neighbors with whom you develop a reciprocal
relationship of respect and support--they, too,
are successes. The most menial workers can properly
consider themselves successful if they perform their
best and if the product of their work is of service
to humanity.--Michael DeBakey, M.D. |
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"The
concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive
... the values it represents are spiritual as
well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary.
It is within the power of the legislature to determine
that the community should be beautiful as well
as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced
as well as carefully patroled."
~ Justice
William O. Douglas
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We
do not have a money problem in America. We have
a values and priorities problem.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
I
think it is important that people who are perceived
as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral
and community values.
-- Marian
Wright Edelman
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"Our
society's values are being corrupted by advertising's
insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity,
popularity equals success, success equals happiness."
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I
see religion as a powerful positive healing force
for this nation and the world. But that force is
blunted, weakened, compromised inestimably, if we
turn religion into a tool for advancing political
strategy; if we make it a matter of how to win political
office; if we treat it as anything other than a
sacred part of life from which we ought to draw
sustenance and values and strength for living courageously
as good citizens.
-- C. Welton Gaddy |
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It was once said that the moral test
of government is how that government treats those
who are in the dawn of life, the children; those
who are in the twilight of life, the elderly;
and those who are in the shadows of life, the
sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert Humphrey
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"My
hope is for us to come together not only embracing
shared beliefs and values, but acknowledging our
differences in ways that promote respect and appreciation.
To ask for a shared vision is a fair and legitimate
human proposal; what is not fair and legitimate
is to dictate the ways on how we get there. If we
are to emerge from the long shadows that can engulf
us, we must talk with each other, come to understand
each other, and renew ourselves and our perceptions
of each other."
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There
is so much each one of us can do to make a difference.
We are at a dangerous juncture in the history
of mankind. … We need to defend our principles
and values, human rights, civil liberties and
the rule of international law. If we don’t our
world will further descend into a state of chaos.
-- Bianca Jagger
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"Listen, the environmental movement is not about
protecting the fishes and the birds so much as
recognizing that nature is the infrastructure
of our communities ... If you're saying the values
that drive the environmental movement are uncool
and antithetical to America, then I would argue
just the opposite. If you think being patriotic
is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd
say the most patriotic thing you can do is to
take care of the environment and try to live sustainably."
~ ~ Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr.
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The
true spiritual life begins within the individual
when he perceives the importance of it, and begins
to realize what spiritual values are. Therefore,
in order for man to emerge from his present state
of chaos, he must experience a revolution of a
new type, one that will have neither a political
nor an economic character. We may call it the
individual self-revolution. There is nothing that
can better transform man from his materialistic
conception of existence to a spiritual awareness
of life than such individual revolution from within...
-- Frederick Kettner
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We
teach academic subjects and we assume life skills
will somehow be acquired along the way. Not a
safe assumption! The curriculum has to include
things like communication, conflict resolution,
parenting, family dynamics, critical thinking,
values, ethics.
-- Azim Khamisa
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There
can be no peace without justice and respect for
human rights. I passionately believe in the power
of human rights as a set of global values to bring
our fractured and divided world together. Around
the world human rights activists are giving hope
to millions of people - women, indigenous people,
the poor and the marginalised - in their struggle
for equality and dignity.
-- Irene Khan
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"...we
as a nation must undergo a radical revolution
of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from
a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented
society. When machines and computers, profit motives
and property rights are considered more important
than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism,
and economic exploitation are incapable of being
conquered. A true revolution of values will soon
cause us to question the fairness and justice
of many of our present policies...
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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Every
year at this time, an important phrase marks the
season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
It's so common we sometimes forget about what
it really means - that we strive for a world without
war, a society where we respect and help our neighbors,
a place where we protect and uplift our most in
need. This isn't a phrase we should live by for
one day or one month. It's a set of values that
must bond and motivate us every day.
--
Dennis Kucinich
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We
have come a long way in America because of Martin
Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent
revolution under the rule of law, a revolution
of values, a revolution of ideas. We’ve come a
long way, but we still have a distance to go before
all of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly
interracial democracy, what I like to call the
Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.
-- John R. Lewis
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We
can still alter our course. It is NOT too late.
We still have options. We need the courage to change
our values to the regeneration of our families,
the life that surrounds us.
~ Chief Oren Lyons
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We
must construct a new set of values and attitudes
to replace the culture of war which, for centuries,
has been influencing the course of civilization.
Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to
establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework
of tolerance and generosity from which no one will
feel excluded.
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“All
media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions
and arbitrary values”
-- Marshall McLuhan quotes
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"If
we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human
potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary
social fabric, one in which each diverse gift
will find a fitting place."
-- Margaret Mead
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In
our country, the large corporations are the dominant
institution. They comprise the strongest, consistent,
generic power in the land. They share a high degree
of coordinated values. Their power is all the more
remarkable in its resiliency and ability to accommodate
or absorb other challenging power centers such as
big government and organized labor in ways that
turn an additional profit, erect an additional privilege,
or acquire protective mechanisms to ward off new
pressures for change or reform."
-- Ralph Nader
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We
need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence
while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between
our most deeply held values, and keeping this
nation safe.
-- Barack Obama
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Analyses
of others are actually expressions of our own
needs and values.
-- Marshall
Rosenberg
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Every
Day is an opportunity for all who value spirituality
in their lives to connect and unite in our wish
for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world
based on values grounded in our deeper spiritual
connection to each other and the world around
us.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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Markets and money must again become the servants
and not the masters of our vision and values.
-- Jakob von
Uexkull
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On
issue after issue, the polls -- and these are
not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent
period of time -- show that most Americans share
what one could call core liberal or progressive
values: investment in health care and education
over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate
accountability over deregulation; environmental
protection over laissez-faire policies; defending
Social Security and Medicare over privatizing
them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating
it. The country prefers progressive alternatives
to the failed policies of the conservative right.
-- Katrina
vanden Heuvel
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It is absolutely sure that if globalization is
not founded on moral values not only will fail
but will bring about global calamities.
-- George Vithoulkas
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In many parts of the world the people are searching
for a solution which would link the two basic
values: peace and justice. The two are like bread
and salt for mankind.
-- Lech Walesa
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If
a teacher does not involve himself, his values,
his commitments, in the course of discussion,
why should the students?
-- Paul Wellstone
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