"I am convinced that if we are..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.”
“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”
“The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.”
More on Values
“Cathleen Falsani: What is sin?Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values.”
“To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.”
“Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.”
More on Society
“We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions”
“You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?”
“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”