822 Quotes About Generations

  • Author Adam Smith
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    A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

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  • Author Alan K. Simpson
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    A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

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  • Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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    The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

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  • Author Alex Steffen
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    By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

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