“Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 131 of 169
“The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.”
“I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?”
“The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.”
“Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.”
“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.”
“Liberty, without wisdom, is license.”
“Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.”
“It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.”
“I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”
“I will not descend among professors and capitalists.”
“Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.”
“Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !”
“Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers”
“Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.”
“Don't let tobacco companies make the choices for you... they care about their own well-being, not yours”
“The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.”
“I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's nice to see an artist dip out and come back in every once in awhile. There's a such thing as oversaturating the market. I mean look at Britney.”
“If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.”
“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”