MO Quotes

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

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

This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

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

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

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.

Unsurprisingly, the most vocal opponents of new technologies are those who dominated the old.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Governments today are organizations of elderly men who know no other to work and govern than the ways of their youth.

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.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.