“I was not born to be forced.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 115 of 169
“When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?”
“Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?”
“I haven't learned to be politically correct yet.”
“There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.”
“Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”
“The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.”
“Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.”
“National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.”
“Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.”
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
“What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.”
“To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'.”
“They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property.”
“All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.”
“Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands. I should have been clearer about the attribution. We updated our story immediately.”
“I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.”
“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”
“Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.”
“We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)”