Generational Conflict Quotes

“Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country, because our parents are our first oppressors.”
― Jerry Rubin

“I’m talking about the inevitable time when, unless we do something to stop it, men will be hunting men through the ruins, for food. We’re letting it drift towards that, with an evil irresponsibility, because with our ordinary short lives we shan’t be here to see it. Does our generation care about the misery it is bequeathing? Not it. “That’s their worry,” we say. “Damn our children’s children; we’re all right.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth; inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.”
― Clifford Cohen