“I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 147 of 169
“I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.”
“If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.”
“There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.”
“To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.”
“My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.”
“Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.”
“Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.”
“The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.”
“Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.”
“Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?”
“My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.”
“Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!”
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien”
“You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag.”
“When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies, laughing, was something that was made for entertainment on that level. And records and maybe TV and stuff like that is really made to be heavy.”
“You can't boycott something you never went to anyway,so why put energy into it?”
“Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.”
“Meant to be?’ It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.”
“To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.”