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THIS WEEK’S QUOTE

Mar 1st, 1998 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File

The real universal values are common to everybody. You cannot survive in this world through small islands of progress surrounded by misery and poverty.

To me, there’s no way of surviving if it’s not through values. Because otherwise, individualism, regionalism, nationalism will kill this opportunity of a worldwide culture, of a worldwide set of values, and a worldwide effort to get to a world of rewards for everybody.

–Vicente Fox, former chief executive of the Coca-Cola Corporation for Mexico and Central America, and present governor of the Guanajuato State in Mexico. From Global Values, Moral Boundaries, the Institute for Global Ethics’ pilot survey conducted at the State of the World Forum in October 1996. Click here for more information on the Global Values Survey.

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