Youth Burden Quotes

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of $23,000 in student loan debt, and they are the ones saddled with it. Youth have become indentured servants and that turns them away from public service.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.