“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.” IfsMenHeartMayDoeHelpingLyingCultureRealizingBornDestinySeeingGenerationsPositionHe ManDependsCivilizationRemainsWinterCeaseChosenGoldenAcknowledgeOur DestinySummitRipeCharlatansPedantsSimpletonsPhidias Book:Form and actuality Source: Form and actuality
“Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.” FeelsMeanFormGenerationsStylePoetExpressionDependsTongueNativeAdequate Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.” WayWantNeedsYearsWellsMaySoulProblemForceWaitingGrowthGenerationsEconomicDependsCitizensEqualCapitalismCrisisConstantWestEnvironmentalOilDrySoilFiftySustainabilityDogmaFabricExpandingUnbornPrevailingDrainedNeeds And WantsSoul ForceAquifers Author:Philip Yancey
“The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.” PeopleWorldHumansNationsCausesDarkEffortHistoryViolenceFailingGenerationsDependsAchievementThreatLiftsOur TimeOur FutureTireThis GenerationGreat AchievementHuman FreedomGreat Hope Author:George W. Bush
“Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.” ValuesAbilityLevelsTechnologyGenerationsInformationDependsIntellectualTasksMachinesIncreaseManageComplexityContrastInformation Technology Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.” ChildrenPastFacesNextAnswersGenerationsShareReadyDependsOur ChildrenCrisisEducateNext GenerationOur Generation Author:Oliver DeMille
“Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.” PeopleWritingImportantYoungPoliticalFightingReligiousGenerationsYouthDependsTraditionWestIslamRevolutionaryProphetYoungstersArdentIdeologues Author:Michael Scheuer
“Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.” KindBeautifulFatherGoalGenerationsDutyDependsConquest Author:Indira Gandhi
“Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.” MenTogetherUnderstandingGenerationsDependsCivilizationElementsTraditionBoundsGoldenLinksVitalityRenaissance Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses