“Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 83 of 169
“I didn't completed my University Education”
“There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.”
“The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.”
“I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.”
“It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.”
“The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.”
“Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.”
“To live outside the law, you must be honest.”
“The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.”
“Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid”
“If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.”
“I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.”
“If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.”
“Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.”
“The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.”
“Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.”
“The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.”
“It is immoral not to tell.”
“Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.”