A Quote by John Ashcroft

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

John Ashcroft

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Am Doing Generation Important Most Next Shape Single Society Task Transmission Values

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John Ashcroft
American - Public Servant
Born: May 9, 1942

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

Ela Bhatt

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"

Tim Berners-Lee

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Gregory Bateson

Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

Chip Pitts

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Ronald Reagan

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.

Richard Hofstadter

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

Samuel R. Delany

Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill.

Ali Sina

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

Erich Fromm

Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.

Charles Kennedy

Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

Kenneth E. Boulding

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Ibrahim Babangida

True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.