My generation is the generation that experienced school shootings beginning when I was in high school, the generation that fought in the post-9/11 wars, the first generation to have to deal with the reality of climate change, and the first generation not to be better off than our parents materially — if nothing changes.
September 11thPete ButtigiegThe baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.
Steve BannonFuture generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Conservation & Environment ProtectionMartin SheenThe more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Technology, SmartphonesJ. B. PriestleyOur choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
Maggie QLet us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Conservation & Environment ProtectionA. P. J. Abdul KalamThe question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
Nature & Environment, ElephantsDavid AttenboroughEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellWe have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.
Mark Zuckerberg, A letter to our daughter, 1.12.2015I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left.
ProgressJohn Osborne in Look Back in AngerI fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
Foolishness, TechnologyAlbert EinsteinYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Youth, AgeAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixI must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams