Janet Mock Quotes

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

The great mass of 18-year olds ... are given no choice.... The older generation immolates the younger, on the alter of Moloch ]. What God, centuries ago, forbade Abraham to do even to his own son,—"Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him" [Genesis 22:12]—this we do by decree to the entire youth of a nation.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.

Young people never do have a clue. There are some young people that do, but they've always been the exception. They always all grow up at some point. The problem is that they're all being indoctrinated by stupid leftists.

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.