quotes about My Generation

“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”

Source : "Anything That's Peaceful". Book by Leonard Read, 1964.

“We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”

Source : Hugo Claus (2009). “Wonder”

“Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous.”

“Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.”

“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”

“We are born of love. Love is our mother.”

“Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.”

“Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.”

“The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.”

“Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.”

Source : Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster