“The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.”
Source: Awake in the Night
“You are the only man I ever respected,' she said. 'But you haven't aged well. You have stayed young. Men who stay young don't age well.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“…I do not mind odious young men; it is when they are charming that I button up the pockets of my sympathy.”
Source: Collected Short Stories: Volume 1
“You are a man, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.”
“Still the future of civilization lies, he thought, in the hands of young men like that; of young men such as he was, thirty years ago; with their love of abstract
principles; getting books sent out to them all the way from London to a peak in the
Himalayas; reading science; reading philosophy. The future lies in the hands of young men like that, he thought.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery.”
Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
“Young men, come and blow things up.”
Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
“War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.”
“Can one young man change a civilization?”
Source: Arms from the Sea
“Stand Human Anyway (Sonnet 2262)
If Jesus didn't exist,
Moses didn't exist,
Mohammed didn't exist,
Vyas and Sid didn't exist,
I'll still stand just as divine,
just as alive, just as human.
If the bible didn't exist,
koran didn't exist,
torah didn't exist,
and vedas didn't exist,
I'll still stand just as sacred,
just as aware, just as human.
If I didn't exist, my writings didn't exist,
stand human anyway, within you is the ore.
Don't outsource, you are the source,
feet rooted in soil, not shackled in folklore.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper