“As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 11 of 169
“Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.”
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
“I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”
“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?”
“After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.”
“Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.”
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
“Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.”
“Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.”
“I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.”
“White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”
“I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.”
“Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.”
“Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.”
“The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”
“To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at intellectualism, real or feigned, and sometimes suggests technical acumen, perhaps because it is so hard to tie. BowTies are worn by magicians, country doctors, lawyers and professors and by people hoping to look like the above. But perhaps most of all, wearing a bow tie is a way of broadcasting an aggressive lack of concern for what other people think.”
“If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.”
“In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.”