Jillionaire Quotes

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

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

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

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

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

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

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

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

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

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

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

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently.