A Quote by Pope Francis

Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

Pope Francis

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Elderly Future Honored No Future Young

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Pope Francis
Argentinian - Priest
Born: December 17, 1936

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

Pope Francis

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

Mark Foley

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima-the "eternal present".

H. E Davey

Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

Pope Francis

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

George Bernard Shaw

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

Nachman of Breslov

I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.

Hema Malini

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Pope Francis

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Bill Gates

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

Herbert Gold

It's a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It's awful when you're young, too, but you always have hope.

June Brown

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.

Carrie Lam

Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.