The world is as you are - The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=lynch
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character - Ralph Waldo Emerson
People behave differently depending on the frame of reference that they employ...I have often felt that I have multiple personalities: one for business, one for social responsibility and one or more for private use - George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered p55
Our experience of the world is relative to our perspective, the world of our experience is always changing, therefore we must be wary of our tendency to adopt fixed or dogmatic judgments, evaluations, and standards based upon a narrow viewpoint, since this leads to conflict and frustration - Chuang Tzu, 4th Century BCE
Morally I am drawn towards greyness and ambiguity...I cannot simply shed a lot of the social and moral architecture of my upbringing and that is fine because I haven't suddenly got a different moral code because I don't believe in God. I subscribe to the same views as most Judeo-Christians which tells me that the these moral values transcend religion by and large, they have a biological origin probably - ttp://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait95.html
It takes patience and persistence to help people recognize that, despite our differences, there's a core of shared values that includes such universals as honesty, respect, and compassion. But since this recognition flies in the face of a half-century of moral relativism -- insisting that everyone has different values and that ethics is situational and individualistic -- the first option is still difficult. - Rushworth Kidder, http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/members/currentissue2.tmpl
In the land of the blind a one-eyed man is king - African tribe Yoruba
Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When it is gone Earth will recover. Long after the last traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on - Dave Pollard, http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2008/02/06.html#a2094
Here and there, like flowering weeds at the crumbling edges of a paved parking lot, you see signs that there are other points of view...It made me feel that I was not alone, and that there are many, many points of view that never get heard or noticed. Ah well, I will go back out into the sub-tropical campus where the white butterflies have been joined by swallow-tailed butterflies and bees and birds I can't find the names for - Oxford Muse, 2005
He turned the pages and marveled how dull information is deprived of personality. The sorrows of humanity are no one's sorrows, as newspaper readers long ago found out. A frisson of horror may go down one's spine at wholesale destruction, but one's heart stays unmoved. A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy - Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time