Future Generation Quotes - Page 8

• In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Country, Father, Congratulations

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• One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, Fate, Rocks

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• You must understand that if you indulge in revenge exclusively, it will come back to you, because those who are revenged upon - even if the whole world believes they deserve it - will in some way express exactly what was expressed towards them. Why perpetuate suffering, no matter how justified it may seem to be, if it only perpetuates suffering in the future for future generations?

  Robert Shapiro

  Revenge, Believe, Indulge In

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• I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and even rode mules. To do all these things in one of the most stunning natural areas in the world just made it more amazing. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

  Nolan Gould

  Fun, Believe, Kayaking

  "Nolan Gould, ‘Modern Family’ Actor, Heads To The Grand Canyon With Sierra Club", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

  Pope Francis

  Climate, Generations, Problem

  Address at the White House, delivered 23 September 2015, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

  Sigmund Jahn

  Space, Tasks, Generations

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• I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country treated them well. It gave my sisters and me the opportunity to get an education and succeed. I wanted to repay my country for how they treated my family and ensure that our values and freedom are intact for future generations.

  Ruben Gallego

  Country, Opportunity, Parent

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

  Reince Priebus

  Senior, Retirement, Cutting

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• You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.

  Ian Kershaw

  Men, Damn You, Historical

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• Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

  Conrad Burns

  Thank You, Teacher, Hard Work

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• I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Country, Jobs, Brain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Creative, Overcoming, New Horizons

  "Everyday Life in the Modern World".

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• It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, whether we continue to advance at all.

  Eban Goodstein

  Climate, Generations, Pace

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• The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

  Jon Runyan

  Giving, Digging, Generations

  "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.

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• I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

  Billie Jean King

  Thinking, Generations

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, War, Oil

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• 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

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Long, Vision

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• All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.

  Narendra Modi

  Buddhism, Empowerment, India

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• We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Issues, Justice

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• When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Regret, Night, Trying

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.399, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Christopher Flavin

  Future, Effort, Creative

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• 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

  James Hansen

  Future, Sea, Ecosystems

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• I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Baby, Thinking

  Marco Rubio's speech at the first GOP debate in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Drawing, Vision

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