Regretful Quotes — Page 28

Writer, Humorist

“We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.”

Hands Boys Cheer

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Jefferson Davis

Politician, Military Leader

“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.”

Government Abuse League

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”

Mistake Pride

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Cato the Elder

Politician, Orator

“I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.”

Mistake Forgiveness

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Ingrid Bergman

Actress

“I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.”

Regret I Regret

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Hugo Chavez

Politician

“The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.”

World Threat Imperialism

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Toni Cade Bambara

Writer, Activist

“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.”

War Winning Fashion

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

Life Time Regret

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George Carlin

Comedian, Actor

“I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'”

Believe Government Rules To Live By

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”

People Sky Gold

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Al Pacino

Actor, Filmmaker

“I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.”

Character Mistake Regret

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Mathematician

“The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

Children War Teaching

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Quotes for When You Feel Regretful