“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 53 of 169
“I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.”
“I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.”
“It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.”
“Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.”
“Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.”
“Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.”
“Bad men are full of repentance.”
“There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.”
“The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.”
“It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.”
“The problem is that we have allowed our egos, the part of us which believes that we are separate from God and separate from each other, to dominate our lives.”
“Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.”
“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.”
“We should exterminate all rational thought.”
“What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.”
“Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.”
“Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.”
“To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.”
“Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.”