“Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 35 of 169
“Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.”
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
“This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.”
“The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”
“This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.”
“I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.”
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.”
“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.”
“Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.”
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent”
“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”
“I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.”
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
“But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth”
“Make injustice visible.”
“I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.”
“I was born with God-given gifts of very talented musical ability and exceptoinal physical coordination. I always needed prodding to practice piano, violin, cornet or French horn. I had to be pulled away from any athletic participation. Now, at 63, I look back on my athletic feats - All-American, All-Pro Quaterback, College and Pro Football Hall of Fame - and I can honestly say I would trade these all if I had been smart enough to pursue my musical career. YOUNG PEOPLE - don't make the same mistake.”
“Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.”
“Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.”