Best 18 quotes in «new generation quotes» category

But if some of the pieces make you laugh, I will be happy, and if they persuade even one person to try reading Plato who otherwise wouldn't have done so then I will know I have not wasted my time.

Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It's very important that the older generation sees this, feels it, and tastes it. Otherwise they become cynical old goats, and they die with regret. But if you can see that younger people are also tapping into visions analogous to those that you had in your twenties, that's very heartening. If you have something to teach them––which you probably do, especially if you carry some wounds yourself––then there's a mutual learning that goes on. It's not one-way by any stretch of the imagination. It's a beautiful thing.

Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.

Certainly–and we can all agree on this, whether we are atheists, theists, panentheists–the future is doing the calling. The unborn children, our great-great-grandchildren are doing the calling. A mere seventy-five years from now they're going to be saying, 'What did you do, Daddy, when the Earth was collapsing and when militarism was where you were putting so much of your money, and when empires were still the mode of the day, and when religions were at each other's throats and Christianity was collapsing? What did you do? How did you interfere and say no?

That's why we live in a world that is so messed up, because most of us go along, simply because going along is connected to our paychecks.

Great songs are gone; unsung songs remain. Who will sing them?

Old-fashioned dating still exists. You’re either dating the wrong people or you are the problem.

Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.

There is much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns.

The powerful do not understand hope. Hope is not part of their vocabulary. They speak in cold, dead words of national security, global markets, electoral strategy, staying on message, image and money...Those addicted to power, blinded by self-exaltation, cannot decipher the words of hope any more than most of us can decipher hieroglyphics.

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

We have to get over this notion, which many of us are taught early, that your soul is in your body. Because if your soul is in your body, it doesn't grow very much–your body is obviously limited in size. But if your soul's not in your body, but your body is in your soul, then your soul can grow as much as your heart and mind grow.

We believe that today's younger generation, who started a global movement by camping out on Wall Street and its equivalents around the world and who are often choosing a road less traveled rather than joining the military-industrial-academic-prision complex–these people are prophets in our midst.

We have become so preoccupied in clicking, capturing and caging memories that we have forgotten to live them first.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.