“We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 159 of 169
“Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.”
“There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations. Nowadays, the media have to be there for them, to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.”
“The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.”
“Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).”
“Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.”
“Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.”
“The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!”
“Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip”
“Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.”
“For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.”
“Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.”
“The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.”
“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”
“They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!”
“But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.”
“Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.”
“While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.”
“Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”
“I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.”