“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 98 of 169
“The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.”
“Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.”
“We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.”
“A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.”
“...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.”
“If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.”
“I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.”
“Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.”
“I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.”
“We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.”
“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”
“This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .”
“When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.”
“Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.”
“Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.”
“Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.”
“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.”
“One is not old until Dreams become Regrets.”
“but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.”