„Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.“

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— Pol Pot

September 2018
Nate Thayer interview (1997)

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Generalsekretär der kommunistischen Partei Kambodschas 1925 - 1998

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„We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious. They fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.“

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— Pol Pot former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea 1925 - 1998

Interview with Elizabeth Becker (22 December 1978), quoted in "Pol Pot remembered" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/81048.stm, BBC News (20 April 1998)

„Resolved, always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.“

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— Jonathan Edwards Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian 1703 - 1758

No. 69.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)

„My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.“

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— Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980

On Pilgrimage (1948), p. 126

„Isn't it sad? In our world, women also don't support other women enough — how often do we really work together to make a difference? We are sometimes so vicious toward one another. We want to be independent women, but we really don't know who we are as women. It's about us taking control, because we tend to just blame. We complain about the world, but we are still not loving toward other women.“

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— Salma Hayek Mexican-American actress and producer 1966

O interview (2003)

„I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.“

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— Harlan Coben, buch Missing You

Quelle: Missing You

„When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.“

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— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

Quelle: Lock and Key

„I had from earliest childhood a sense that there was no skin between me and the world. I saw things other people didn't see.“

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— Elizabeth Hand, buch Generation Loss

Quelle: Generation Loss (2007), Ch. 1
Kontext: I had from earliest childhood a sense that there was no skin between me and the world. I saw things other people didn't see. Hands that slipped through the gaps in the air like falling leaves; a jagged outline like a branch but there was no branch and no tree. In bed at night I heard a voice repeating my name in a soft, insistent monotone. Cass. Cass. Cass. My father took me to a doctor, who said I'd grow out of it. I never did, really.

„I have often reflected that General Abrams, who had worked so hard to make the South Vietnamese armed forces capable of defending their country, at least had been spared the agony of seeing the death of the Republic of Vietnam. Westmoreland, on the other hand, was not spared that trauma, but seems over the years since the war to have become a national scapegoat, blamed for everything that went wrong in Vietnam, large or small, regardless of whether he had even a remote connection with the matter. It is a singularly fair and unsupported judgement. Many scores of senior American officials, civilian and military, including the author, contributed to our Vietnam mistakes, most of which have been so judged in hindsight. The real "blame", of course, must be laid squarely on the Hanoi regime and the North Vietnamese people, who demonstrated to the world that they had the will to prevail. Although it is a small comfort to Westmoreland, history is replete with the examples of one native son's being singled out, rightly or wrongly, as the person responsible for a national disaster.“

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— Bruce Palmer Jr. United States Army Chief of Staff 1913 - 2000

Quelle: The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam (1984), p. 133-134

„If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.“

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— Sarah Dessen, buch The Truth About Forever

Quelle: The Truth About Forever

„Most people have a problem becoming a vegan or stopping eating meat, but because of how I want to live in this world and how I want to treat other creatures, I have to be a vegan. In order for me to eat meat, I would have to change all of my other beliefs.“

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— Jim Morris (bodybuilder) American bodybuilder 1935 - 2016

"The Story of a 78-Year-Old Vegan Bodybuilder - Jim Morris: Lifelong Fitness" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUtv4slpm-U, documentary-film on YouTube (March 11, 2014).

„Don't blame me," he said, surprised at her reaction. "Blame human nature. I didn't make the world.“

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— Robert Cormier, buch Beyond the Chocolate War

Quelle: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 145

„With the added psychological deterrent of litigation, my clashes with the pigs declined somewhat in frequency. They focused primarily on isolating me from others. Their efforts to perpetuate a discontinuity in our unity has been the pigs’ only effective weapon against me. And they’ve admitted in a thousand ways that their greatest fear is ending up with many other prisoners on their hands who think and act as I do. Their isolating me was long a tactic that I could not devise an effective countermeasure against, that is, until after 2001, when I was first exposed to revolutionary theory and have since come to understand the role of ideology. Without a unifying ideology, there can be no unity of struggle. Ideology was something I’d never had, and thus something I could not share. The prisoners who’d united in struggle with me had done so because of me. Not because of a shared principle. Therefore, when I was no longer around, they lost the initiative to struggle on.“

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— Kevin Rashid Johnson American prisoner and social activist 1971

Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson (2010)

„I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?“

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— Jack Levine American artist 1915 - 2010

Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1956.

„All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.“

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— Megan Whalen Turner, buch A Conspiracy of Kings

Quelle: A Conspiracy of Kings

„I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.“

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— Lemmy Kilmister British singer-songwriter 1945 - 2015

„We have no other choice, we have no power to stop the [U. S. ] planes, if we could, if I could … we would stop them and bring them down, … If we had a chelak, we would throw it and stop the American aircraft. We have no radar to stop them in the sky, we have no planes, … I wish I could intercept the planes that are going to bomb Afghan villages, but that’s not in my hands.“

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— Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan 1957

Afghan president wishes he could down U.S. planes, www.cnn.com, November 26, 2008 http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINISL40856620081126,
Message to Taliban

„I was there to protect and defend the little creatures in the world the most bereaved and the most loveable, the appeal of whose helplessness had suddenly become only too explicit, a deep, constant ache of one's own committed heart. We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had them.“

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— Henry James, buch The Turn of the Screw

Quelle: The Turn of the Screw (1898), Ch. II.

„I have not stopped wishing for the renewal of our former ties, for I believe that slight differences in procedure are not enough to destroy our common principles, purposes, and feelings.“

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— Marcelo H. del Pilar Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896) 1850 - 1896

Marcelo H. del Pilar to José Rizal (20 July 1892)

„My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.“

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— Georges Clemenceau French politician 1841 - 1929

On being told his son had joined the Communist Party, as quoted in Try and Stop Me (1944) by Bennet Cerf
A statement similar in theme has also been attributed to Clemenceau:
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
As quoted in "Nice Guys Finish Seventh" : False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations (1992) by Ralph Keyes.
W. Gurney Benham in A Book of Quotations (1948) cites a statement by François Guizot as the earliest known expression of this general idea, stating that Clemenceau merely adapted the saying substituting socialiste for republicain:
N'être pas républicain à vingt ans est preuve d'un manque de cœur ; l'être après trente ans est preuve d'un manque de tête.
Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
Variations on this general idea have also been attributed or misattributed to many others, most commonly Winston Churchill, who is not known to have actually made any similar statement.
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„Between the age of eighteen and twenty I had attained a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence and … I had done it all alone, with absolutely nobody to help me, not even books, you understand! When I found one — I had in my hands a little later Vivekananda's Raja Yoga — it seemed to me so wonderful a thing, you see, that someone could explain something to me! This made me gain in a few months what would have perhaps taken me years to do.“

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— The Mother spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo 1878 - 1973

As quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)", and in Bulletin, Volume 53 by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=VMzWAAAAMAAJ

„Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.“

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