“I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 92 of 169
“But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.”
“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”
“My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.”
“I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance”
“The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.”
“The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others.”
“Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.”
“Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.”
“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.”
“Laws are inoperative in war”
“If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.”
“Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives”
“Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.”
“Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.”
“Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.”
“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
“I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.”
“Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
“All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.”