Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

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

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 I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

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.

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

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

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

I'm not of this generation.

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.

There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

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

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

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

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.