Coming Generations Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there…
— Erik Dammann
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If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime…
— Svante Arrhenius
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly…
— Nikola Tesla
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So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition…
— Christian D. Larson
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I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in…
— Friedrich Kellner
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We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you put them down…
— Oren Lyons
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You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit…
— Richard P. Feynman
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It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be…
— Pope Francis
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Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid…
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air,…
— Lynette Fromme
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of…
— John Burroughs
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The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the…
— Oskar Kokoschka
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
— Khalil Gibran
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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as…
— John A. Logan
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so…
— King Felipe VI
Who Wrote These Coming Generations Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Coming Generations Quotes as follows: