Richard Rodriguez Quotes

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

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.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

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.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

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

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

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

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.

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

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

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

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.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.