I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs…

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare

It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had…

— Lawrence Douglas

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us…

— Diane Wood

“Engels’s view of evolution was Lamarckian, rather than strictly Darwinian, in that he believed that characteristics acquired by individuals could be inherited by later…

— Terrell Carver

“Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future? Some of the habits of our age will doubtless be considered…

— Anonymous

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

— Patti Smith

“I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have…

— Plato

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said,…

— Plato

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

— Michael Beschloss

“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.”

— Mahbud

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel…

— Stephen Harper

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

— John Conyers

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other…

— John F. Kennedy

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans…

— Condoleezza Rice

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith