Generational Tension Quotes

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

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.

My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her.

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

You discover two things when you're a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we find so many reasons why we don't want to be like our mother.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.