1.
If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation
Saladin
If you wish to subvert a nation without violence, corrupt the youth with debauchery and immodesty.
2.
There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated
Antonio Gaudi
3.
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
Maria Montessori
We are the pioneers - our offspring reap the rewards. We toil so that future progeny will be superior and more honorable than us.
4.
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
John Wesley
'What one generation allows, the next will accept wholeheartedly.'
5.
I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.
Qin Shi Huang
'My progeny shall be plentiful. Spanning future generations from two to ten thousand, my legacy will endure.'
6.
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.
Vladimir Lenin
Instill in a single cohort of youth and I shall revolutionize the entire planet.
7.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
Frantz Fanon
Every age must uncover its purpose, carry it out or renounce it, with limited comprehension.
8.
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
Stokely Carmichael
'Our forebears had to flee, flee, flee. My age is exhausted. We won't be running any longer.'
9.
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
Al-Kindi
10.
A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
A fresh cohort of Christians has emerged holding the conviction that it is feasible to acknowledge Christ without renouncing the world.
11.
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
Condoleezza Rice
12.
Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.
William Booth
Maximize the limited time you have to honor God and contribute to society.
13.
Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.
Kano Jigoro
'Nourishing the intellect is surpassing every other treasure beneath the sun. By enlightening one individual and dispatching them into their era, we make a lasting impact that will reverberate for centuries to come.'
14.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
Emile Durkheim
Each successive generation is nurtured by the one preceding it; thus, the prior cohort must make progress to benefit its progeny. The cycle is continuous.
15.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
Otto von Bismarck
'A cohort that has endured hardship is invariably succeeded by a cohort that inflicts it.'
16.
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
Dambudzo Marechera
The elderly individual expired beneath the cogs of modernity. Nothing remained but smears, crimson splotches and pieces of tissue . . . And the same tragedy is befalling my contemporaries.
17.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
Abraham Lincoln
A leader is he who considers the future of humanity, and a politician is he who focuses on immediate gains.
18.
Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.
Lala Lajpat Rai
I am apprehensive about the upcoming generations since the inhumane slaughter of cows and other creatures has begun.
19.
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.
Mary Edwards Walker
Communicate to posterity that female service members also ensured their liberty.
20.
Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.
Frances Xavier Cabrini
21.
The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.
Hugh Hefner
22.
When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
Kofi Annan
When women flourish, all of civilization flourishes, and future generations are provided a more advantageous beginning in life.
23.
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.
Robert Owen
To prepare and enlighten the next cohort will always be the primary focus of society, to which all other matters shall take a backseat.
24.
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.
Klemens von Metternich
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My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
George Muller
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
Abraham Verghese
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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.
Ravi Zacharias
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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
Augusto Roa Bastos
29.
Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.
Arnold Gesell
30.
We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons
Nizar Qabbani
31.
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
Kano Jigoro
33.
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34.
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
Wangari Maathai
35.
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
Chinua Achebe
36.
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
37.
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
Queen Elizabeth II
38.
Every deed has a seed. In other words, the deeds you choose to do in this lifetime create a seed for future generations.
Jentezen Franklin
39.
There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.
Ken Moelis
40.
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
Regina Brett
41.
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
Claude Nicollier
42.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
Tom Brokaw
44.
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
Fernand Point
46.
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.
Trip Hawkins
47.
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
Tom Brokaw
48.
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Natan Sharansky
49.
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.
Winona LaDuke
50.
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
John Clellon Holmes