“If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 54 of 169
“There is no such thing as sportsmanship.”
“We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”
“I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.”
“Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.”
“Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can't open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.”
“A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.”
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”
“Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.”
“The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.”
“Following instructions is overrated.”
“I'm not for integration and I'm not against it.”
“If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.”
“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”
“The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either”
“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.”
“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”
“Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.”
“Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We have to make an affirmative stand on it.”
“The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.”