“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

We can’t abolish prejudice through laws.

I know we can’t abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

Men always say, “Let’s see what you can do.” If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we’re still paying for it.

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

I’M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

Never before in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged – and yet so empty.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.