We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being.
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A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.
There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
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