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Parenting & Family Quote by Toše Proeski

"Sometimes we need some place where no one has to blame for all we have to fear, where no pollution has to live, where children begin to reign"

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It reads like a postcard from a world that doesn’t exist yet, and that’s the point. Proeski isn’t describing a vacation spot; he’s building a moral refuge: a “place where no one has to blame” because blame is the currency of broken societies. The line carries a quiet diagnosis of the Balkans he came from in the 1990s and 2000s - a region still processing war, nationalism, and the daily habit of assigning guilt to survive the past. In that landscape, innocence isn’t naive; it’s radical.

The grammar’s slightly tangled (“fear of”, “has to live”), and the roughness actually helps. It sounds like someone reaching for language big enough to hold grief and hope at once, not polishing a thesis. “Where no pollution has to live” moves beyond environmental talk into spiritual contamination: the toxic atmosphere of cynicism, corruption, and inherited hatred. Pollution here is both smog and social poison.

Then the line turns utopian with a sharp edge: “where children begin to reign”. That’s not sentimental “think of the children” rhetoric. It’s a power shift. Children “reign” when the rules are redesigned around vulnerability, play, and future-mindedness rather than dominance and revenge. Coming from a pop musician - and a humanitarian figure in the region - the intent is cultural triage: imagine a clean room for the soul, then smuggle that vision back into a world addicted to blame.

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TopicPeace
SourceSong lyrics: “This World” (UNICEF anthem recorded after he was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, 2004).
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Proeski, Toše. (2026, February 16). Sometimes we need some place where no one has to blame for all we have to fear, where no pollution has to live, where children begin to reign. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sometimes-we-need-some-place-where-no-one-has-to-185444/

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Proeski, Toše. "Sometimes we need some place where no one has to blame for all we have to fear, where no pollution has to live, where children begin to reign." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sometimes-we-need-some-place-where-no-one-has-to-185444/.

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"Sometimes we need some place where no one has to blame for all we have to fear, where no pollution has to live, where children begin to reign." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sometimes-we-need-some-place-where-no-one-has-to-185444/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Toše Proeski

Toše Proeski (January 25, 1981 - October 16, 2007) was a Musician from Macedonia.

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