“If I said what I was really thinking about this f**ked up world, the government would assassinate me like all the other people they've killed.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 153 of 169
“I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.”
“If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!”
“I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.”
“Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.”
“We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.”
“Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.”
“Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
“Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.”
“We cannot reform our forefathers.”
“The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.”
“I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.”
“Beaurocracy destroys initiative.”
“Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.”
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.”
“Present fear is never as bad as later regret.”
“Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.”
“Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.”
“Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.”
“Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.”