Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

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

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

You are all a lost generation.

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .