“The past cannot be cured.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 24 of 169
“I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.”
“Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.”
“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”
“Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You”
“We have been poisoned by fairy tales.”
“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”
“We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.”
“As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.”
“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.”
“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”
“Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.”
“I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.”
“Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.”
“Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.”
“The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
“A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"”
“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.”
“The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .”