Generations Quote by Walter Dean Myers Download Open image “Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.” — Walter Dean Myers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations Reason Seems War
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“That generation was inoculated against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by shouting rhetorical slogans or… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more. — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
“The fact that you are born means you have the potential of benefiting yourself and generations” — Abegunde Sunday O Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
