“I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 102 of 169
“Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.”
“Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.”
“I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.”
“Unjust laws aren't laws at all.”
“The wind of revolutions is not tractable.”
“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.”
“Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it.”
“Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.”
“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.”
“One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.”
“I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.”
“Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?”
“A fault is fostered by concealment.”
“Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.”
“I don't believe in colleges and universities.”
“Look at this tangle of thorns.”
“Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.”
“The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.”
“Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.”