“Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 39 of 169
“When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.”
“A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.”
“I did everything I could to not be a musician.”
“Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.”
“Yes, burn your bridges.”
“Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.”
“If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
“Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.”
“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.”
“An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”
“An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”
“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”
“I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.”
“And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
“They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.”
“Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .”
“The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.”
“There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.”
“I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.”