“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 42 of 169
“Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.”
“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
“Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.”
“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
“If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.”
“I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.”
“I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.”
“It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket.”
“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”
“Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.”
“If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.”
“I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.”
“My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.”
“I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.”
“Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.”
“There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.”
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”
“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people…. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.”
“When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.”