Creator Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all…

— Thomas Jefferson

One generation cannot bind another.

— Thomas Jefferson

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to…

— Thomas Jefferson

What does our generation owe to generations yet unborn? ...there is an order in the universe which must be respected, and... the human person,…

— Pope John Paul II

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was…

— Thomas Paine

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

— Herbert Hoover

Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world; nor, further, can Those motions that give…

— Lucretius

As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which…

— Munshi Premchand

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation,…

— Plato

What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality,…

— Paul Virilio

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest…

— Ayn Rand