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Regretful Quotes — page 89 of 169
“When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.”
“My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.”
“The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.”
“Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.”
“We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.”
“The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.”
“The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.”
“The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.”
“Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.”
“The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.”
“Since there my past life lies, why alter it?”
“Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.”
“Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.”
“There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.”
“In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play ball. I can't imagine a serious poet who would want to write or perform for most recent inauguration. I'd be very surprised if there were an inaugural poem, and I can't really imagine what that would be.”
“The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.”
“What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”
“I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.”
“A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.”