We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?