“One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 133 of 169
“I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.”
“What a fool I have been!”
“Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.”
“I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.”
“Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...”
“People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.”
“I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.”
“It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)”
“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.”
“I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.”
“Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.”
“Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best.”
“This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.”
“That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity.”
“Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?”
“A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.”
“No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.”
“I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.”
“I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?”