“I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 57 of 169
“The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.”
“There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.”
“Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.”
“Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.”
“Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.”
“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.”
“K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.”
“Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.”
“It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.”
“If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.”
“One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.”
“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”
“I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.”
“Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.”
“In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.”
“Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.”
“I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.”
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”
“[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.”