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“What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.”

Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!”

Thinking Ideas Seems Age Individual Special Youth Folks Accomplishment

Book:Like One of The Family

Source: Like One of The Family

“We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.”

Trying Sometimes Age Individual Mistake Middle Youth Individuality Middle Ages Eccentricity

Author:Alec-Tweedie

“There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards - women and youth.”

Kind Two Earth Individual Youth Planets Beard Planet Earth

Author:Phil Robertson

“From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.”

Two Country Moving Order Individual Nations Felt Effort Youth Consequence Connections Determined Convinced Curse Britain Ireland Great Britain Two Countries Individual Effort

Author:Theobald of Bec

“Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.”

World Whole Culture Individual Progress Youth

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.”

Wells Children Individual Community Childhood Possibility Youth Activity Desert Better Life Here And There Abiding

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!”

Ifs Men Should Years Individual Youth Amount Equal Hundred Twenties Eight If I Could Ems Pounds Halls Schooling Sixteen Present Time Fondness Tuition

Author:Charles Dickens

“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”

“The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.”

Problem Individual Waiting Forever Youth College Decided

Author:Charles Hamilton Houston

“It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.”

Has Beens Age Individual Justice Freedom Race Responsibility Liberty Rights Youth Duty Ought Birth Honor Demand Individual Rights

Book:History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange

Source: History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from His Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange

“But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."”

“Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.”

Dream Choices Individual Nations Community Youth Development Empowerment Tools Foundation Our Future

Author:Nita Ambani

“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.”

Wells Individual Nations Youth Habit Seeds Good Habits

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.”

Enough Body Individual Grows Sports Voice Practice Growing Up Heard Youth Expression Duty Communication Exercise Lucky Embrace Compassionate Freethinker

Author:Leilani Bishop

“From about age 17 to 25, a time some people describe as "beautiful youth," it was "arranged" for me to live with two different collectives. These eight years where I had absolutely no choice influenced me in two ways: firstly, I gained an understanding of "freedom." To this day, I very much respect and treasure individual choice. Secondly, I developed a suspicion towards any kind of organization, collective, movement or uniform action, as well as a rejection of any kind of power.”

People Kind Different Age Action Beautiful Choices Individual Understanding Youth Rejection This Day Suspicion

Author:Wang Jianwei