Generations Quotes - Page 49

I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.