Best future & future-generation Quotes

“...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."”

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Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.”

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Author:Prince Philip

“Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life”

“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”

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Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“Everywhere we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and harmony where future generations can live happily together.”

“Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.”

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Author:Tarthang Tulku

“The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)”

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Author:Carl G. Fisher

“The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.”

“We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.”

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Author:Blythe Danner

“Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”

“It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.”

“We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction”

“...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations”

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Author:Jonathon Porritt

“The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species”

“We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment”

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Author:Elliot Morley

“Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever”

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Author:John Gummer

“When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts”

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Author:Christopher Flavin

“Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

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“Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.”

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“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

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Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.”

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Author:John Mellencamp

“I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.””

“I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.”

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