Generations Quotes

3253 quotes by 2306 authors

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come — Lester R. Brown
Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight. — Tim DeChristopher
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently… — Ferdinand von Mueller
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our… — Paul Keating
Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more… — Peter Ellyard
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity… — Peter Garrett
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The structures… — Ross Garnaut
The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous… — Raimond Gaita
I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say… — Tim Costello
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to… — Bernard Lown
In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or… — Albert Einstein
Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could… — Ronald Reagan
Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always . . . find there a city of hope in a country that is free .… — Ronald Reagan
I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world. — Robert Kennedy
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . .… — Thomas Jefferson
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,… — Robert Parry
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been… — George Monbiot
In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of… — Jacquetta Hawkes

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