“Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 91 of 169
“I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.”
“No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state”
“There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.”
“Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.”
“I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.”
“I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.”
“You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.”
“The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.”
“[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.”
“If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
“To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.”
“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
“If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.”
“Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.”
“The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
“It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.”
“We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.”
“Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.”
“I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.”