Context Quote by Bernard Brodie

“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only,…

— Madeline Miller

“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“No. I’ve been thinking about this for weeks. I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new…

— Ira Levin

“The younger generation forms a country of its own.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is…

— Christopher Isherwood

“All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have…

— John Barth

“generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will…

— Timothy Snyder

“All the older men are linked up with their previous life. They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background which is…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The young have aspirations that never comes to pass,the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious…

— Saki

“Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse.”

— John Green

“Mussolini and Horthy to different degrees feared Hitler and were suspicious of German military power, but by building their regimes on the basis of…

— Robert Gerwarth

“...I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but…

— Ann Rinaldi