Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

We don’t need to wait three generations for change.

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

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system. -- With this in view I have taken as impulses, instincts, or needs certain driving forces in the human species as we know it at present, and argued for such social and economic changes as will give them new, free, and varied expression. To take even this first step towards a happy society is a herculean task. After it has been accomplished, generations to come will see what the creature [us] will do next. We none of us know; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do

No people ever sees clearly those steps in its own progress, those events in its own life, which future generations will count glorious.

You cannot rub off the effect of that conference from modern Africa today

Fifty years from now there will be statues of me all over Germany

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

These guys from the past really motivate me, much respect to the guys before me and the ones after me.

I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?