“We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 36 of 169
“What's dead may never die.”
“We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.”
“The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.”
“Man is bound to lie about himself”
“These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.”
“People mistake their limitations for high standards.”
“What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?”
“Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.”
“We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.”
“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.”
“In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.”
“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
“Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.”
“Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.”
“I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.”
“To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.”
“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”
“Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.”
“Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.”