Quotes for When You Feel Regretful

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Naturalist, Writer

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”

Eye Perfect Nature

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Ayn Rand

Philosopher, Novelist

“Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”

Men Liberty Doctrine

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Sinclair Lewis

Novelist

“When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.”

America Flags

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Russell Brand

Comedian, Actor

“The bad-boy label is just an assumption.”

Boys Labels

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Jimi Hendrix

Musician, Guitarist

“If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.”

Ifs Establishment

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Madonna Ciccone

Singer

“Sometimes you just have to go and make a mess of things to get people to pay attention.”

People Attention

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Kenneth Williams

Actor

“I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.”

Scripts Innuendo

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Umberto Eco

Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”

Book Language Chance

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Rachel Carson

Biologist, Conservationist, Author

“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”

Vision Demand Accepting

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Sri Aurobindo

Philosopher, Poet, Politician

“The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality.”

Men Ideas Spiritual

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist

“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

Thinking Discipline Taste

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”

Mean Government Political

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