“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”

— George Bernard Shaw, Three Plays for Puritans

Three Plays for Puritans, Preface (1900)
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Irish playwright 1856–1950

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 138

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

“If generation were in a straight line only, and there were no compensation or circle in nature, no turn or return into one another, then you know that all things would at last have the same form and pass into the same state, and there would be no more generation of them.”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Plato, Phaedo

“We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: Family hurts us, it is like a trap, it shortens our life, it bothers us psychically and socioculturally, it forces us into a limited level of consciousness, it robs us of our essential self, it inculcates ideas in us that are not our own, and at the moment when we find ourselves in the world, all of this collapses and we have to build a life from scratch. We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment.