Modern Youth Quotes:

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

- Roger Scruton

source: Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

topic: Modern Youth, Adults, Culture, Rite, Common Culture

The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Spiritual, Sex, Men, Initiation, Modern Youth

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

- Georgette Heyer

topic: Daylight, Abduction, Youth, Modern Youth

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Down And, Youth, Great Music, Modern Youth, Clockwork

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

- Hesketh Pearson

source: Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”

topic: Children, Opportunity, Games, Modern Youth