"Each generation exercises power over its successors:..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.
More by C S Lewis
“Have you not seen that in our daysOf any whose story, song or artDelights us, our sincerest praiseMeans, when all's said, 'You break my heart?”
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
More on Generations
“When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.”
“The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.”
“We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists”
More on Power
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.”
“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”