Rube Goldberg Quotes

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

If youth knew; if age could.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

I really just don't think that teenagers and adults are maybe as different as people think, and so the best roles, to me, are treated like real people and not like these 'crazy kids we don't know what to do with.'

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

Not everybody's gonna get your vision.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

We live in a society where you may not like everything that is happening around you. However, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it is wrong. Similarly, just because you dislike something, you don't have to keep talking about it or instigating people against it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.

Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.

I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus, but you have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.

As I always say, you don't have to love me, but you have to respect that I'm here.

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

Let's stop being afraid ... to seem intolerant

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.