Generations Quotes

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...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations — Jonathon Porritt
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just… — Gordon Brown
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only… — David Attenborough
We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do… — Elliot Morley
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That… — John Gummer
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem… — Douglas Adams
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the… — Cate Blanchett
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider… — Shimon Peres
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end… — John Carmack
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. — James F. Byrnes
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad… — Martin Amis
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and… — Bobby Sands
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one. — Otto von Bismarck
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and… — Max Horkheimer
Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its… — Karl Marx
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For… — Michel Foucault

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