Jonas Salk Quotes

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

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

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.

Today’s generation of young people holds more power than any generation before it to make a positive impact on the world.

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.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

My fame is largely due to young people, theyre the first ones to discover me.

my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

A hundred years from now? All new people.

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so much so, that it is inconceivable to them that they can, for long, be separated from their devices. Indeed, many of us who are not young, who are 'digital immigrants' rather than 'digital natives,' are also wedded to, if not dependent on, our digital devices.