822 Quotes About Generations

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don’t understand me,