Future Generations Quotes

281 quotes by 235 authors

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically,… — Geoff Mulgan
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… — Martin Filler
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the… — Tony Blair
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. — Kurt Vonnegut
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of… — E F Schumacher
The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to… — Pope John Paul II
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He… — Evelyn Waugh
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of… — John F. Kennedy
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. — David R. Brower
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human… — Muhammad Yunus
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has… — Elie Wiesel
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my… — Leon Trotsky
Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is… — Nhat Hanh
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal… — Barbara Kingsolver
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in… — Greg Graffin
Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a manâ€™s life if it is not… — Marianne Curley

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