Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The founding fathers didn't see it that way. They didn't see many things.... We now have to raise their consciousness.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Every third our fourth generation that comes along refuses to accept the way their parents and grandparents are living. They just don't want any part of it, and Millennials are doing that in a way. The Millennials, you talk to a lot of their parents, and they don't recognize 'em when they compare them to themselves.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.