Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.