“They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 40 of 169
“I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.”
“Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.”
“I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).”
“You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.”
“I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors.”
“Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.”
“The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.”
“The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you.”
“Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.”
“I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things.”
“This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.”
“A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.”
“[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.”
“A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?”
“It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.”
“Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.”
“There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.”
“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
“There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.”