Future Generation Quotes - Page 4

• We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

  Joseph Mailman

  Business, Add, Generations

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• All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Suffering Of Others, Want

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• If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again so that those liberties are preserved for future generations. And, if we're ignorant, we won't even know when government infringes on our liberties. Moreover, we'll happily cast our votes for those who'd destroy our liberties.

  Walter E. Williams

  Sacrifice, Government, Historical

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• Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Idyllic, Captivity, Generations

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• And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, June, Rights

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.464, Best Books on

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• The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of toxic pollutants, and the economy diligently conserves its natural resources for consumers and future generations. We want to make it easier for consumers to create this world through their purchasing decisions and everyday activities.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Ideas, People

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• An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.

  Jeremy Narby

  Sacrifice, Land, Knowing

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.119, Penguin

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• Future generations, if there is a livable world for them,
  will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society.
  And they may well call this
  the time of the Great Turning.

  Joanna Macy

  Transition, Generations, Looks

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• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

  A.C. Grayling

  Philosophy, Mistake, Perspective

  A. C. Grayling (1988). “Wittgenstein”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

  Richard Dawkins

  Forgiving, Generations, Why Not

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.

  Thomas Berry

  Beautiful, Giving, Justice

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• It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions.

  Paul Bocuse

  Appreciation, Teaching, Off The Beaten Path

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• Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

  Nelly Furtado

  Nature, Connections, Legacy

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• If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  People, History, Humanity

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• The passing of every old man or woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rites possessed by no other...consequently the information that is to be gathered, for the benefit of future generations, respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost for all time.

  Edward S. Curtis

  Mean, Men, Opportunity

  Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Apache, The Jicarillas, The Navajo”, p.16, Native American Book Publishers, LLC

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• No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

  Samuel Smiles

  Giving Up, Race, Forever

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Future generation is the most important thing.

  Confucius

  Important, Generations, Important Things

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• There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

  Jaime Lerner

  Dream, Responsibility, Cities

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• We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

  Loretta Lynch

  Responsibility, Generations, Sake

  "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4.

  Brian Sandoval

  Cities, Generations, Passionate

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• National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

  John F. Kennedy

  Intelligent, Generations, National Parks

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• A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Generations, Care

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• I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, Thinking, True Life

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