Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2299 authors
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All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on…
— Derrick Jensen
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I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material…
— Winston Churchill
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The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win.…
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
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At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time –…
— Trevor Treharne
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Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects…
— Bill Gates
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In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of…
— David Lynch
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Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is…
— Richard Tuttle
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When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health…
— Ntozake Shange
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a…
— Leon Kass
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We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
— Leon Kass
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Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always…
— A.C. Grayling
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new…
— Frank Pittman
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the…
— Norman Douglas
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From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future…
— Guru Nanak
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In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.
— Patricia C. Wrede
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