Modern Youth Quotes

• The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Sex, Men

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• I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

  Georgette Heyer

  Daylight, Abduction, Method

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• Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

  Anthony Burgess

  Down And, Great Music, Said

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Children, Opportunity, Games

  Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”

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• The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

  Roger Scruton

  Adults, Culture, Common

  Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

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