“Dogmatism is the prerogative of youth.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Empire Rally of Youth at the Royal Albert Hall (18 May 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), p. 161.
1937
“Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.”
— Anthony Burgess, book A Clockwork Orange
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