“Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 22 of 169
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
“The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.”
“The best way to behave is to misbehave.”
“Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.”
“Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.”
“I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.”
“I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.”
“The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.”
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.”
“We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.”
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.”
“I don't give a damn about semi-radicals!”
“There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu”
“Desegregation is a joke.”
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”
“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”