Our Generation Quotes - Page 2

• People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

  Adolf von Harnack

  Names, People, President

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• I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

  Barack Obama

  War, Generations, Terrorism

  "Democrats Debate in the Windy City". www.npr.org. August 8, 2007.

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• Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eerie, Silence, Generations

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• I think the gap between Israelis and Palestinians is too deep to be bridged in our generation. Politically, we are in favor of a regional solution. A part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be annexed by Israel, and the other parts should be incorporated in a confederation with Jordan.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Thinking, Israel, Jordan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Sacrifice, Maturity, Long

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• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Courage, Powerful, Healing

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• For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

  Richard Perle

  War, Evil, Holocaust

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.12, Random House

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• It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Air, Tasks, Generations

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• Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

  Albert Claude

  Dream, Cells, Years

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• It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

  Alison Moyet

  People, Interesting, Generations

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• Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

  Sha Zukang

  Opportunity, Giving, Humanity

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• It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Moving, Ideas, Heaven

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• One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!

  Sarah Steele

  Mom, Grandparent, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Light, Darkness, Example

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• It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

  Niall Ferguson

  Average, Chinese, Generations

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. July, 2011.

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• Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Success, Real

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Sister, Book, Paris

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• I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

  Richard Stearns

  Children, Believe, Years

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• We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Struggle, India, Needs

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• God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation.

  Paul Cain

  Expression, Understanding, Generations

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, People

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Memories, War

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• I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Hero, Thinking, Two

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• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tasks, Generations, Phrases

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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