Environment Quote by C. S. Lewis

“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition,…

— C.S. Lewis

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future,…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

— Dominic Holland

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

— Meridel Le Sueur

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

— Emile Durkheim

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which…

— Saint Augustine

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

— Margaret Oliphant

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…

— Hannah Arendt

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

— James Madison

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

— Otto von Bismarck

Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I'm not sure exactly where I stand in this generational continuum. I'm rebellious, but not against tradition--I'm very respectful of tradition. I'm rebellious against…

— Wafaa Bilal