Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

In America, the old are neglected.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed.

To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.