“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 21 of 169
“(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.”
“To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.”
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.”
“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”
“There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed”
“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.”
“I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.”
“The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.”
“When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.”
“We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.”
“I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.”
“Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.”
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
“I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.”
“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”
“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
“The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.”
“I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.”