70 Quotes About Posterity

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

Don't be a pawn, when you're meant to be the king.

Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.

Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.

Consider what stuff history is made of, — that for the most part it is merely a story agreed on by posterity.

The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.

Truly successful writers blend the personal and the profound to enlighten and entertain readers while simultaneously banking something for posterity. Remuneration is a wonderful afterthought.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.