It is possible, temporarily at least, to live by the values which the world squeezes out - Anthony Smith http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait31.htm
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 Britain, only 8% of employees are 'strongly of the view that their values and those of their organisations are very similar', only 14% are proud of their organisation, only 30% feel loyalty to it. - Theodore Zeldin http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/07/05/vision.zeldin/
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…
Harmony, equality (green) describes "societies with values and self-awareness," like Holland - high level of Spiral Dynamics - see e.g. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/681495.html
For me, values are not only about creating within the organisation a sense that people feel better, it is also about actually being better; doing the right thing. That is much more important to young people today than 10 or 20 years ago. The young graduates we recruit are increasingly asking questions about corporate and social responsibility, values, what differences we seek to make, and at the same time they have questions in their mind around whether big business is good or whether big business is just inherently bad. 'So the values journey for us is about making sure we can create confidence that actually...big business is good. And that's not touchy feely and soft, actually it's pretty hard - Mark Otty, chairman, Ernst & Young UK
Does humanity only value thing in pounds, dollars and euros? Or can we get to a new era of value; one where our happiness, our ability to be creative and where the knowledge that you are working with Nature and not destroying the future of the next generation to come is given a value much greater than that which can reside in a bank account? - Mark Boyle, http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/blog.php?id=834
Conflicts originate mainly because of intolerance and a lack of commitment to a peaceful resolution of differences. Such a commitment to peace and progress through dialogue has to be brought about by restoring public faith in the immense potential of human values and dialogue as the means to resolving differences - http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/content.asp?contentid=610
Centre attention on the evolution of human values and consciousness as the crucial factors in changing course ? from a race toward degradation, polarisation, and disaster to a rethinking of values and priorities so as to navigate today's transformation in the direction of humanism, ethics, and global sustainability - Ervin L
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it - George Horace Lorimer