“[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 114 of 169
“What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.”
“Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.”
“They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.”
“Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.”
“When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.”
“I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.”
“A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.”
“I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.”
“Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.”
“[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.”
“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
“I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.”
“Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.”
“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.”
“There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.”
“Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.”
“An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.”
“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”
“In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.”