Victor Hugo Quotes

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

We need to preserve programs like Social Security and Medicare for our seniors of today and tomorrow. But we need to strengthen both Social Security and Medicare to make sure these programs are still available for future generations.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.

Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Each individual should work for himself. People will not sacrifice themselves for the company. They come to work at the company to enjoy themselves.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources.

U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.