The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Robert A. HeinleinDemocracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Robert A. HeinleinNever crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
Robert A. Heinlein