“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.” KnowsValuesPayWatchesWorryStruggleShareStudentsMembersMy FriendsCrisisMedicalBarackBelovedTreatmentLoanMortgageFamily MembersStudent LoanBeloved Family Author:Ted Strickland
“Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.” ValuesSportsTeamProveMembersBaseballWestSports TeamBaseball TeamWest Point Author:Omar N. Bradley
“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.” NeedsValuesGivenSocialQualityGroupsDependsHabitMembersAimSocial LifeSocialization Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.” ValuesOrderOpportunityCommonNumbersGroupsInfluenceMastersMembersSlaveVarietyEducateUndertakingsLarge Numbers Author:John Dewey
“The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the child - and a moral dictum - don't kill other humans. The more here, even, is flexible and relative. "Thou shall not kill" really means, "don't kill productive, contributing members of your own society that aren't a threat to your safety." If it was not relative, then no "Judeo-Christian" person could ever go to war or execute someone.” IfsHumansMeanChildrenPersonsWarRealChristianValuesMoralIssuesAtheismConflictMembersSafetyThreatAbortionProductiveRelativeFlexibleReally MeanContributing Author:Morris Sullivan
“The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In choosing where to spend money, members of Congress choose what priorities they value.” WellsValuesMoralMembersReflectionCongressPrioritiesBudgetsDocumentsMoral Values Author:Tim Walz
“As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.” MayValuesCommunityDemocracyMembersFunctionRaisesHumbleConception Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.” HumansWellsMayDoeIdeasValuesInterestMarriagePersonalityMembersElementsComplexesAssociationPartnershipHuman ValuesSynthesis Book:Inheritance Source: Inheritance
“What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.” NeedsChildrenFactsValuesIndividualSocialParentReligiousResponsibilityHonestyMembersEthicsImportanceCleanRelativeWork EthicFidelityFamily MembersFamily ValuesRelationships With OthersIndividual ResponsibilityClose RelationshipClean Living Author:David Elkind