“When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 67 of 169
“Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense”
“A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.”
“Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.”
“Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.”
“You can't go through life trying to please everyone.”
“Forget the past.”
“MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.”
“In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.”
“Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.”
“I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy, just to be punk rock.”
“I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”
“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”
“The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner”
“I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.”
“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”
“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.”
“Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.”
“Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society.”
“Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.”