There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself - Henry David Thoreau
There is a big change going on in the way people see the world: change in the concept of development, in the way people live together. But for this change to bear fruit, we need education on a global scale... Solutions will come when the world becomes educated about global values, the common values of its inhabitants and communities - Rigoberta Menchú Tum, A Plea for Global Education, 1993
The loathsome behaviour of City boys and hedgies at the height of their success. It was the behaviour of people without culture and without any sense of their connection to other people. They were isolated within their own phenomenally narrow set of values. Such isolation breeds stupidity because judgment is discarded as it might threaten the gamblers' groupthink. Outsiders are mocked because they 'don't understand'. - Bryan Appleyard
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values - Dalai Lama
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own - Robert Louis Stevenson
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change - Jane Goodall
it's not accountability, choice and referendums that people want, as some politicians are plugging, so much as organisations that simply exhibit certain virtues. That's what's been lost, and needs a fix - Mark Vernon http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?post/2010…
In secular, consuming society nothing is more urgently needed than a cogent, passionate justification of those values we hold most dear in spite of everything - Bryan Appleyard http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?post/2010…
In a secular, consuming society nothing is more urgently needed than a cogent, passionate justification of those values we hold most dear in spite of everything - Bryan Appleyard http://www.markvernon.com/friendshiponline/dotclear/index.php?post/2010…
If you don't stick to your values when they are being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies -Jon Stewart