Peter Fonda Quotes

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

I'm like, 'Wow, I guess a lot of people didn't have this type of upbringing'... that old world technique of, you know, nothing's given to you, you've gotta work for everything you've done... It's just different from what I'm seeing today.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

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!'

The youth doesn't know what they want while the older generation remains stuck in the past. But the basic concept of entertainment remains the same - demand and supply - and that won't change.

There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.