Generation Quotes

2595 quotes by 1960 authors

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next — Roger Scruton
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. — Robert Owen
Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs… — Lech Walesa
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it. — Max Hastings
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of… — Albert Claude
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a… — Jerry Stahl
A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make… — David Frum
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which… — Joe Biden
When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon â€“ when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to be… — Parker J. Palmer
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists — Pat Roberts
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and… — Patrick Pearse
My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have… — Juan Manuel Santos
Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans. — Malcolm Wallop
With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation. — Bret Easton Ellis
It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and… — George Santayana
Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why… — Valerie Solanas
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. — Fiona Shaw
The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation.… — Hugh Hefner
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. — Walter Rauschenbusch

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