George Burns Quotes

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people

The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

I didn't see a woman drive until I visited my sister and brother-in-law in Tempe, Ariz., in 1976.

There are schools for weird children now. There wasn't when I was young.

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.

There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.

Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'

Look at what left-wing movements were like in the 19th century - they were all about progress, the engineering of the world, the reshaping of nature, and so on. It's only postwar, really, that people on the left have come to see the environment as a critical issue.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

The media has bought into the whole social revolution, the Kinsey ideas, and has been completely taken over by the feminists. And the feminists, I think, are the most destructive elements in our society.

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

Nostalgia has become so much more popular because technology and climate change are visibly present. It's easy to idolize the past, before those things were prevalent.

We are becoming a society where traditional values and free speech are being diminished and the religious are viewed as having a backward mentality.