“The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 43 of 169
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.”
“Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.”
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
“A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.”
“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”
“Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.”
“To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.”
“Patriotism corrupts history.”
“The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.”
“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”
“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.”
“In masturbation there is nothing but loss.”
“You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.”
“All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.”
“I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.”
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
“the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.”
“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”