When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.

My dream is to save this youth and reach out to them. The world is beautiful, we must make it even more beautiful!

I think basically the youth of today are just having so many problems and they are sort of confused...This is their method, of escaping...Just like I sleep to escape my problems.

I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

It is not clear to me whether the insouciance of youth will be the doom of humanity or its salvation. I prefer to think the latter, but I have my doubts.

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Among the educated young there is therefore a startling and unprecedented interest in the transformation of human consciousness. All over the Western world publishers are selling millions of books dealing with Yoga, Vedanta, Zen Buddhism, and the chemical mysticism of psychedelic drugs, and I have come to believe that the whole “hip” subculture, however misguided in some of its manifestations, is the earnest and responsible effort of young people to correct the self–destroying course of industrial civilization.

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.