Generations Quotes - Page 14

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

[Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.