Age-Based Inequality Quotes

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.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.

Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.