Failure Quote by Erich Maria Remarque

“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty,…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. ”

— Frantz Fanon

“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have…

— Aaron B. Powell

“Technological advances happen so quickly, and integrate themselves so seamlessly into the fabric of our existence, that we hardly note their arrival anymore, let…

— Ron Currie Jr

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

— George Orwell

“There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks…

— Anonymous

“We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject…

— Toni Morrison

“all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to…

— Terry Goodkind

“our homes, communities, country, and on our planet. Instead of forever being blamed for the excesses that put our planet on the destructive path,…

— John Schaeffer

“In the pursuit of great we failed to do good.”

— Viktor The Machine Herald

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the…

— Criss Jami