posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.
Perhaps the next and the next will inherit his virtues but in time the worst will take over.
Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.
What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
