#values

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #values




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


#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.


Carol Bellamy


#build #children #choosing #compatibility #core

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.


Ben Bernanke


#businesses #crisis #declines #destroyed #economic

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.


Andrew Bernstein


#chosen #conflict #earth #given #hero

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.


Judy Biggert


#colleagues #current #current form #expression #form

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.


Jill Lepore


#heredity #history #inheritance #values #change

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.


Peter DeFazio


#better #business #california #coast #congress

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.


Howard Dean


#balance of power #been #beliefs #bottom #change

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.


Tony Blair


#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.


Olympia Dukakis


#age #because #being #difficult #dramas