#predecessors

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#each #generation #injustice #predecessors #progress

It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#been #constitution #current #haven #members

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#content #formulas #go #illustrious #let us

President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#could #damage #did #economy #found

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#beginning #day #first #gets #habit

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#free #get #hate #immediate #our

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#each #generation #names #new #new people

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#before #british #defeat #fire #future

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#art #done #epithet #masters #merited