“Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.” KnowsWarMotherNextFailingGenerationsRocksMotherhoodGods WillKingdomsSatanEmpiresRighteousNext GenerationKingdom Of GodCradleLoving Mother Author:Sheri L. Dew
“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."” PeopleCountryWiseFailingGenerationsDangerousCryPrideProveAmbitionDignityInstitutionsSelfishOur CountrySecureWelfareSchemesMockDeceptiveTrue PatriotismFalse Pride Author:Carl Schurz
“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayUseRealityMoralProgressFailingGenerationsJudgingAchievementStandardsTestsCurrentsVigorousForward Thinking Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.” IfsWayFailingGenerationsLessonsMeaningfulReachingReach Out Author:Kweisi Mfume
“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.” Has BeensReasonTodayChristianProcessNaturalLinesStudyTakenFailingGenerationsDisciplineWeaknessSurpriseBeing TrueReason WhyAssociationSecularParallelsEvangelicalOur GenerationParallel Lines Book:Escape from Reason Source: Escape from Reason
“In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.” WellsMayLongRunningTodayPastMovingResponsibilityFailingGenerationsPolicyPeriodsMajorsEnvironmentalTransitionSustainabilityInitiativeFuture GenerationUndertakingsRight DirectionMoving InGestationEnvironmental PolicyMoving In The Right DirectionGestation Period Author:Kofi Annan
“We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so.” IfsKnowsMayChildrenDoeSelfTurnsSocialKnow HowEconomyFailingGenerationsOur ChildrenEnvironmentalSustainabilityOverwhelmedFuture GenerationDegradationOur GenerationDisintegrationEnvironmental Degradation Author:Lester R. Brown
“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
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.” PeopleIfsLoveDoneRealityActionTogetherHumanityUnderstandingPoorHalfSituationFailingGenerationsDyingFailureRevolutionDiscoverySavedSettlingChanging The WorldOver YouFascismQuarrelsHalf Life Book:Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
“If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both” IfsLooksResponsibilityFailingGenerationsThreatBoundsUnborn Author:Winston Churchill
“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.” ThinkingWayPersonsCountryBigsKidsJobsSocialDifferencesFailingGenerationsPicksIncludingIdeologySavingOther CountriesMagnificentNormSocial NormsFreedom To Choose Author:Dan Ariely
“There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.” OpportunityFailingGenerationsCrimeExpectationsIdealismEldersYounger Generation Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingHumansTwoTodayIndividualStrongForceFailingGenerationsGroupsBlindViolentTendenciesLabelsSicknessUrgesWorld TodaySanctionsEnmityVendettaHuman Psyche Author:Richard Dawkins
“The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.” PastYoungMoralFailingGenerationsReaderConcernSkinsNostalgiaContradictionEldersNew Generation Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor