“X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.” MenWorldTryingStoriesPastHumanityStruggleAdultsTeenagerRevolutionaryChanging The WorldRebelSuperheroOngoingClingingX Men Author:Grant Morrison
“What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.” Has BeensEarthHumanityPartyCenturyAdults20th CenturyBest TimesReckoningGreat Party Author:James Lovelock
“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.” IfsMindFirstsSoulSpiritHumanityCommonPossibilityPlanetsDevelopmentAdultsBlowFree WillMatureCommon Experience Author:Ken Wilber
“I'm not reading any kind of fantasy [for young adults] or Hunger Games or anything like that. It's more just like geeks with crushes. It's very sweet, and I'm enjoying how honest they are, and I'm enjoying the humanity in them.” KindYoungHumanityReadingGamesEnjoyFantasyHonestSweetAdultsHungerYoung AdultCrushGeekVery Sweet Author:Morgan Parker
“When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.” IfsWorldWayHumansStillsWarKidsYoungHumanityRealizingBornHuman BeingsTeachPlanetsAdultsFellowsYoung AdultWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiBetter WaysJeopardyFuture Of Humanity Author:Graham Nash
“There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.” KnowsGivingWritingBelieveChildrenStillsBookReasonYoungHumanityStuffIllusionDevilAdultsAngelLogicGuiltCriticsClarityBelovedRebellionBelieve In GodReviewsWitchThirstAlienationObsoletePunctuationQuenchGoblinHoot Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.” BelieveChildrenStillsBookUseHumanityStuffPsychologyDevilAdultsAngelLogicBoringClarityBelieve In GodWitchSociologyObsoletePunctuationDetestAllusionGoblin Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.” MayDoeEndsYoungHumanityBehindsGonePeriodsDiseaseAdultsConstitutionMarkSlaveryToxicComplaintsInfancyPoisoningInfantileMeasles Author:Olive Schreiner