Cesare Pavese Quotes

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

Everywhere I look, I see the possibilities of what America could be. But we can't solve any of these problems by relying on the politicians who created them.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution

[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

We know that inevitably the millennials will get old and tired again, and then there will be the bilennials or trilennials, or whatever the next generation is, and we're all going to end up on our lawn shaking our fists in a bathrobe yelling at the moon.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.