Aging Society Quotes

We treat old people like we treat animals—just put them in a cage somewhere until they die.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

We have become a grandmother.

Somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them.

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

Year by year, we, the citizens of Russia, are getting fewer and fewer…. We face the threat of becoming a senile nation.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

Old folks are the nation.

… we are told that we need these workers to support an aging society, yet, over the past three decades we have allowed over 40 million Americans to die in abortion clinics. Why have we turned our hearts on our own innocent babies and embraced the culture of death? We no longer even talk about the tragedy of abortion or its consequences on our mothers, our culture, or our land. Instead, of course, we are replacing- we are seeking to replace the missing with an imported servant class.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

old folks is the nation.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.