“Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.” MadeValuesJesusChristMiddlePositionEternalCommitmentJesus ChristErrorsCastsSurrenderCompromiseContestsCovenantMeekContentionMiddle Ground Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.” IfsGivingBodyWould BeValuesFoundLeftWishCommonMiddleGiving UpCommon SenseFirmIf I CouldNever Giving UpCommon GroundMiddle GroundShared Values Author:Tom Daschle
“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.” PeopleWayTryingLongFeelingsAbleYoungValuesOrderOpportunityStarsDealsClassMiddleSafeChaosInternationalTerrorismFocusedAccessPartnersSecureConsistentMiddle ClassStay FocusedMiddle Class FamilyNorth Star Author:Barack Obama
“Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.” ValuesPoorClassMiddleTaxesDollarsMiddle ClassReservesViciousSinisterFederal Reserve Author:Ron Paul
“I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.” RealSchoolValuesClassIssuesMiddleFameUnderstoodMiddle ClassLots Of MoneyReal ValueMiddle Class Family Author:Suresh Raina
“Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.” SeemsCertainValuesClassMiddleAmountDefinedMiddle ClassUnlimited Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.” ValuesPoorClassRichMiddleDown AndTraditionalMiddle ClassEightyRich And PoorTraditional ValuesLoose Change Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.” FirstsHas BeensDreamAmericaValuesHouseInterestWhiteClassStreetsMiddlePrivilegeAdministrationMiddle ClassWhite HouseAbandonedDeniedMainstreamIgnoredScornedMain Street Author:John F. Kerry
“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.” MindRealityAgePastPurposeValuesWishMiddleTypePeriodsDegreesPraiseNostalgiaErasEtcMiddle AgesPresent DayImpliedDowngrading Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
“In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.” WorldWaySuccessValuesNextMiddleThis WorldCallingFortuneClergyMiddle Way Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics
“I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.” ThinkingValuesStrongClassMiddleMy FamilyRaisedMiddle ClassExcessMiddle Class FamilyUpper Middle ClassStrong Values Author:Anne Hathaway
“My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.” ThinkingValuesClassMiddleBackgroundsMiddle ClassMiddle Class Family Author:Nita Ambani