“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 86 of 169
“I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.”
“A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have”
“An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy”
“By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.”
“All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.”
“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”
“What America needs is a political revolution.”
“Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.”
“To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.”
“My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.”
“The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.”
“I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.”
“I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.”
“Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.”
“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.”
“I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".”
“Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.”
“Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.”
“So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.”