“If there is something to steal, I steal it.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 79 of 169
“Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.”
“He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .”
“If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.”
“The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.”
“Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.”
“I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.”
“War is out of date, obsolete.”
“And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
“I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.”
“If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.”
“America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.”
“The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.”
“I # forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.”
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.”
“If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.”
“Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.”
“I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.”
“I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.”
“Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.”