Bill Cosby Quotes

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

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

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

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

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

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

I feel so guilty about the state of young people today. And I say that because our generation fought for everything. We fought to sit down at a counter, to sit on a bus. They were left with nothing to fight for.

Profound political shifts - events that suddenly split families and friends, cut across social classes, and dramatically rearrange alliances - do not happen every day in Europe, but neither are they unknown.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

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

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.

I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

It's good for young people to be angry about something.