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Regretful Quotes — page 23 of 169
“... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.”
“It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.”
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
“We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.”
“Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average”
“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
“We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.”
“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”
“If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.”
“I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.”
“On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.”
“Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.”
“The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.”
“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
“I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life”
“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”