“A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 44 of 169
“If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.”
“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”
“Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!”
“Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.”
“The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself”
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
“We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”
“No" is a complete sentence.”
“Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.”
“It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.”
“The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.”
“The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away”
“Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.”
“In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.”
“I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.”
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
“An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.”
“We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.”