Quotes About Youth

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.

I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.