Young Guard may refer to:
- The Young Guard (Napoleon), a French elite military unit during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Young Guard, associated with Soviet Union and Russia:
- "Molodaya Gvardiya" (magazine), a monthly literary magazine published since 1922
- Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher), a publishing house in the Soviet Union and Russia, established in 1922
- The Young Guard (Soviet resistance), a Soviet resistance organisation during the World War II, composed mainly of teenagers
- The Young Guard (novel), a 1945 (rev. 1951) novel by Alexander Fadeyev about the Soviet resistance organisation
- The Young Guard (film), a 1949 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov, based on Alexander Fadeyev's novel
- The Young Guard of United Russia, a pro-Kremlin 'direction action' youth organization, youth wing of United Russia]
Famous quotes containing the words young and/or guard:
“In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here; guard yourself altogether from taking on their mental attitude! Where irony is not a direct and classic device of oratory, not for a moment equivocal to a healthy mind, it makes for depravity, it becomes a drawback to civilization, an unclean traffic with the forces of reaction, vice and materialism.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)