Generation Quotes
2595 quotes by 1976 authors
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No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but…
— William J. Clinton
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The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
— Alan Greenspan
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We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being…
— Hannah Arendt
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The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.
— Robert Redford
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We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be…
— Al Gore
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For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.…
— Ban Ki-moon
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I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.
— Barack Obama
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This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us.…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents…
— Matt Damon
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We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are…
— Alfred W. Crosby
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Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that.
— ASAP Rocky
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Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his…
— Maureen Dowd
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Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four…
— Deval Patrick
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When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in…
— Martin Luther
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To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
— Jane Goodall
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