"No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that."

-- Bob Avakian

#Fate Quotes #Brutality Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.”

Source : "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 99 (1747)
“How would you like to make money in real estate?”
“If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.”
“Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.”
“A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.”

Source : Drug legalization debate, November 13, 2007.
“Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.”
“There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.”
“It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first”

Source : Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin

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