Jon Hamm Quotes

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

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

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

That which separates ourselves from previous generations is rhetoric.

We cannot pick a lifestyle and tell two generations after us to live like that. It is impossible.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

It's the duty of every generation to find music their parents hate.

The youth doesn't know what they want while the older generation remains stuck in the past. But the basic concept of entertainment remains the same - demand and supply - and that won't change.

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people were trying to make a difference, trying to write songs that were political. People grow old. The hippy camp kind of breaks off into different sects.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here