“Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.” AgeTodayTimeNamesPeaceCitiesGenerationsChangedFlowerMastersBattlePeacefulRuinsNothingnessWalesDaisiesHyacinthsPeriwinkle Author:Edgar Quinet
“The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.” PoliticalSexClassGenerationsMovementBattleAchievementTinySquaresEgyptianFrictionPolitical MovementsTahrir Square Book:Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World Source: Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
“The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.” MenNeedsHumansSpeakGenerationsRevolutionBattleConversationLibraryCategoriesPakistanLaboratoryMy GenerationJavaBolivia Author:Rebecca Solnit
“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.” IfsMeanStillsFactsSeemsChristianNamesCreativeGenerationsFeminismKingsBattleFemaleAlsConventionsGoddessTranslateTheologianGrammarGenesisJehovahRabbiCreative PowerElohim Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.” TryingYearsHas BeensUseLastsFightingGrowsCreativityCreativeTakenGenerationsBattleTraditionConstitutionGrantedFedsDomainCopyrightCreative WorkTaken For GrantedPublic Domain Author:Lawrence Lessig
“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.” PeopleMenNeedsChildrenLongHas BeensCultureWrittenGenerationsBattleLowsExpectationsExcuseAccessRelevantFuture GenerationCursingMaking ExcusesLow ExpectationsNemo Author:Michael Gove
“Pakistans future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.” PeopleMindHeartPoliticalLyingGoalDemocracyGenerationsSecurityBuildingBattleProveInstitutionsFundamentalsEmpoweringAccomplishedStabilityPakistanHeart And MindPolitical Institutions Author:Benazir Bhutto
“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.” ChildrenPersonsImportantWisdomRealityPoliticalFightingPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipPartyFamilyHistoryOur LivesGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyMovementPlanetsBattleOur ChildrenStrategyUnityClimateClimate ChangeHuman RightsAll TimeIdeologyPolitical PartiesCivilitySingle PersonGrassrootsGrassroots Movements Author:Emma Thompson
“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.” MayWarRealityAmericaFatherPoliticsProcessCommunityJusticeHistoryTechnologyDemocracyViolenceGenerationsPolicyCitizensBattleEqualEthicsConstitutionHuman RightsTerrorismDuesArguingTrialsCommitIdeologyEngagedFree SpeechPenaltiesMaximumEqual RightsDeath PenaltyBattlefieldsTreasonDespicableConvictsDue Process Author:Rand Paul
“VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.” IfsGivingLongSaidHardRememberResultsKnowingGenerationsExerciseBattleVoteThey SaidRight To VoteSuffragists Author:Pat Mitchell
“Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentFightingGenerationsBattle Book:The Promise Source: The Promise
“The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.” LongMadeFightingTermQualityGenerationsEffectsSourceBattleLong TermTransparencyOur Generation Author:Daphne Oz
“Now what? All the battles feminists won about not being a sex object, not being evaluated based on these things, that now other generations are wallowing in, the extremes they go to, to look sexually attractive? It's stunning how things that one fought desperately for are just being tossed aside with aplomb.” LooksSexGenerationsObjectsBattleFeministExtremesAttractiveJust BeingSexuallyStunningWallowing Author:Toni Morrison
“I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."” ThinkingKnowsWayChildrenEndsProblemSufferingFightingPresidentGenerationsBattleOur ChildrenIraqOddTroopsRationalityOur GenerationBaghdadPresident George W Bush Author:Jon Stewart
“We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.” ThinkingKnowsFightingThreeRealizingBornCasesKnow HowTakenPiecesGenerationsFeminismBattleConflictSittingSuitsMemorableTorchesYounger GenerationDisgusted Author:Erma Bombeck