822 Quotes About Generations

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.