Groucho Marx Quotes

Remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

We shall have to fight the politician who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

In all your acts, self interest shall be cast away. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people, and have always in view not only the present, but of the coming generations.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

Don't let it happen when the time comes, that you will be blamed by the next generation because you did nothing. Don't allow yourself to just stay at the side, clap your hands, smile, and wave your as we create history. i hope you can join in creating history.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

One must care about a world one will not see.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.