Moby Quotes

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

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

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

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

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

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

I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.

Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

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

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.

We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

I'm 28 years old. In my country, that's considered very young. It's almost like the youth don't matter to the up-and-ups.

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