Quotes by Modern Youth Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Anthony Burgess great-music modern-youth down-and I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. Georgette Heyer modern-youth abduction daylight Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. Hesketh Pearson modern-youth opportunity children The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage. Roger Scruton modern-youth adults culture