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“When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.”

People World Has Beens Reality Pain Young Imagination Pleasure Society Paint Disappointment Dues Paradise Realism Lively Pain And Pleasure Due Time

Book:Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

Source: Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World

“the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.”

World Children Government Care Young Community Society Ought Highest Concerned Priorities Facility Young Children

Author:Eda LeShan

“Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.”

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

People Way Care Age Funny Young Fear Society Civilization Members Tests Old Age Our Society Helpless Old People Elders Helplessness This Society Deserted Senior Citizen

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.”

Littles Different School Young Certain Learning Society Habit Institutions Schooling Schooled Unschooling Education And Freedom

Author:Winston Churchill

“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.”

People Young Nations Process Born Democracy Cutting Society Youth Birth Citizens Lifetime Evolve Citizenship Good Citizen World Citizen Lifelines Good Citizenship Active Citizenship

Author:Kofi Annan

“In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.”

People Way Humans Mean Young Effort Cities Rights Society Youth Future Decided Raises Brave Human Rights Unemployed Countryside Torches This Society

Author:Martin Almada

“Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.”

“Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.”

World Today Young Growing Up Growing Society Youth Anger Hunting

Book:The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.”

“Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.”

Mind Character Young Next Generations Society Civilization Sentiments Next Generation Prevailing

Author:Edmund Burke

“I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.”

Ifs School Young Water Cities Struggle Cutting Air Society Streets Citizens Drink Taxes Losing Advantage Dollars Breathe Saved Dirty Filthy Tax Cuts Losing Out

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”

Young Evil Strong Clear Society Stupid Possibility Weak Intelligent Misery Superiors Division Misfortunes Inferiors Avoiding Mock

Author:Xunzi