Andrejs Upits Quotes

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

This younger generation is paying in many cases, for the sins of its elders.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

We must be patient if we would act wisely. What we do today may bear fruit long after we are dead, for no good work is ever really lost. The important thing is to get the tendency right. We should think of all these subjects in terms not of brief individual life, but long continued national life.

Our ethical values point one way, towards intergenerational responsibility, but our political system points another, towards the short-term horizon of the next election. We should consider introducing agents who can vote in a far-seeing and impartial way.

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.