Frank Church Quotes

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

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

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

America is a divided country; we have always been a divided country, but even more divided now, thanks to Trump and a lot of other things, as well.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

They have already made the decision to go to war and to them that is the only option... our country is divided at this point and God only knows what will happen.

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument

Now, a river of blood will divide France from its enemies.

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

Brexit has divided the country. It has divided political parties. And it has divided families too.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

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