“Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 58 of 169
“This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.”
“Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.”
“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.”
“When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.”
“What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.”
“Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.”
“Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.”
“Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.”
“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.”
“As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.”
“Those who build walls are their own prisoners.”
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”
“On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.”
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.”
“The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.”
“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.”
“The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.”
“The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”