Today's Youth Quotes

• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

  Socrates

  Years, World, Today's Youth

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• People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

  Benito Mussolini

  Tired, Order, Discipline

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• Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Attention, Today's Youth, Should

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Knowing, Today's Youth, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 'm the second oldest of eight kids. I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic. I understand that with great influence comes great responsibility.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Sibling, Kids, Responsibility

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Men, Race, Understanding

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• Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Attitude, Trying, Today's Youth

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• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Reading, Exercise, Television Watching

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• Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, School

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Responsibility, Community, Entertainment

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• The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

  Spider Robinson

  Dirty, Tired, Sunday

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• The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

  Marilyn Manson

  World, Today's Youth, Morbid

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