“It seemed like today's culture placed the value of life below so many other things that have little importance in the long run.”

“If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

“If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life–probably none of which is very important in the long run–to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God’s children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He’d like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don’t have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!”

“A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.”

“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.”