Best generations & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.”

May Ends Whole Helping Young Economy Generations Modern Building Willing Offers Conflict Resources Israel Aspiration Spite Regions Realising Palestinian Limited Resources

Author:Shimon Peres

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.”

Believe Doe Stills Ends Reason Helping Age President Common Generations Judgment Argument Settling Lasting Presidency Future Generation Verdict

Author:David Greenberg

“Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.”

World May Children Ends Young Purpose Humanity Parent Views Generations Subjects Instruments Realization Educate Promotion

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.”

Ifs Needs Mind Persons Art Ends Helping Next Generations Majors Crisis Spread Posts Sensible Abstraction Next Generation Clumsy Jargon Pedantic Structuralism

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.”

“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.”

“It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.”

Thinking Ends Generations Special All Things Apocalypse Hubris

Author:Hugh Howey

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.”

Ends Lines Generations Ten Emperor Descendants

Author:Qin Shi Huang

“During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.”

Persons Art Stills Ends Five Generations Forgotten Entertainment Nine Enlightened Despised Kipling

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.”

Ifs Years Ends Law Force Generations Constitution

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive. Generations perform ceremonies of reconciliation but there is no end.”

People Heart Has Beens Ends Done Dies Speak Generations Forgiving Ceremony Reconciliation

Author:Paule Marshall

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.”

Ends Half Generations Century Internet Machines Newspapers Flying Dozen Free Speech 20th Century Telephones Carriages Railway Flying Machines

Author:Max Nordau

“For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.”

Wells Ends Life Is Individual Generations Eternity Claims Environmental Sustainability Succession Participating Individual Life

Book:Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.”

People Years Ends Shows Night Song Generations Dad Singing Shoulders Spectrum

Author:Andy Biersack

“The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

“If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.”

People Ifs World Want War Ends States Fall Nations Enemy Generations Sacrifice Dangerous Victory Periods Europe Errors Affair Strikes Elsewhere Extermination

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.”

Ifs Should War Ends Use Generations Should Have Neglect Tolerate Steel Hazards

Author:Joseph Straus

“My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'”

Firsts Ends Father Roles Saws Generations Journey Directors Soldier Flags Casting Our Father Casting Directors Binders

Author:Stark Sands

“You must prepare yourselves, young people, because Uncle Dave's generation is getting old. We are almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll. We must pass the torch on to you, and you must grasp it, ideally by the end that is not on fire.”

People Ends Home Young Easy Fire Generations Rocks Ready Listening Retirement Rock N Roll Uncles Getting Old Torches Dave Tapping Retirement Homes

Author:Dave Barry

“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.”

Firsts Ends Past Time Power Generations Mankind First Time Nuclear Weapons Disarmament

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.”

Made Ends Done Action Individual Generations Citizens Notion Available Familiar Agency Attainment

Book:Spencer: Political Writings

Source: Spencer: Political Writings

“The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.”

People Ends Country Natural Generations Industry Bears Increase Filled Employment Occasional Provision Foreigners Frugality Subsistence Vacancy Importation

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

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