“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 7 of 169
“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
“The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.”
“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.”
“You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
“Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”
“Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.”
“You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.”
“Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.”
“May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.”
“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.”
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again”
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
“Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!”
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.”
“Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.”
“Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.”