“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.” IfsWorldHumansChildrenRealityFormValuesNationsRightsShapesBasesNotionHuman RightsCommunicateGuidesToleranceTranslateEquityFamily Life Author:Kofi Annan
“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.” MeanRealityInspirationTogetherValuesSpiritualityTermSpaceHigherAll ThingsBasesSymbolsOverwhelmingInwardStagnationCultivatingSpiritual ValuesLiving Reality Author:Leonardo Boff
“We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.” ThinkingDoeWould BeValuesLanguageDecisionTechnologyOne ThingBasesMethodDependentDecision MakingExcludedGood PlaceHigh Technology Author:Ann Druyan
“Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.” IfsShouldBelieveMeanDoeReasonFactsWould BeCertainValuesTheoryProveBasesProtectionCategoriesJustifiedMonopolyProve ItPatentsExtendingCopyright Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming. Many assume that only pleasing relationships have value, but that is not the case. Your awareness of an unwanted situation evokes from you a clear Vibrational request for something different. And so, even those uncomfortable interactions with others form the Vibrational basis of your expansion.” PersonsDifferentFormValuesLeftProcessSituationCasesClearAwarenessBecomingBasesAssumingUncomfortableInteractionExpansionRequestEvokeSingle PersonLeft OutUnwantedInteraction With Others Author:Esther Hicks
“People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.” PeopleValuesAsksAtheismCostBasesPositive Atheism Author:Rodney Stark
“What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.” WaySoulChristianAmericaLawReligionValuesBeliefSimpleViewsStruggleStandardsBasesDetermine Author:Pat Buchanan
“The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.” LongWarChristianValuesCultureReligiousJudgmentStandardsUltimateBasesCampaignsOrganizedInsultHostilityReligious FaithDistortionPopular CultureOrganized Religion Author:Michael Medved