"It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place."

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Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press

David Benatar

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.”

Source : "The Real Bill Ayers". Article by William Ayers, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.
“Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.”

Source : Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”
“An organization must always remember that its objective is not getting people to listen to speeches by experts, but getting them to speak for themselves.”
“Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency”
“The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.”
“Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.”
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press
“We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.”

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