"This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself."

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Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org

Kshama Sawant

#Fighting Quotes #Long Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?”
“There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.”
“The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.”
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
“A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.”

Source : Tim Dorsey (2012). “Pineapple Grenade: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins
“People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)”
“The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.”
“Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.”

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