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“Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.”

May Belief Crime Regret Weakness Commitment Criticism

Author:Imre Lakatos

“I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.”

Feels Crime Regret Prison Remorse

Author:Jim Goad

“There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.”

Ifs Life Said Worry Crime Regret Too Short No Point Life's Too Short

Author:Robbie Williams

“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”

Left Walks Behinds Saws Crime Regret Scene Skins Slips Anguish Left Behind

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”

Crime Regret Remorse

Book:Love Among the Chickens

Source: Love Among the Chickens

“I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.”

People Ifs Sometimes Done Faces Certain Natural Crime Regret Lips Committed Harm Catastrophe Revolver Irrepressible

Author:Anais Nin

“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.”

Thinking Knows Men May Faces Suffering Crime Emotional Regret Solitude Conscience Raises Guilt Faults Committed Guilty Remorse Sincerely

Book:The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, but because you think I should be. I look back on the way I was. A young, stupid kid that committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try to talk some sense to him. Tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, and this old man is all that's left.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Want Feels Should Trying Looks Long I Can Kids Young Left Gone Crime Stupid Regret Terrible Sorry Committed Redemption Old Man

Author:Stephen King

“My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.”

Years States Community United United States Crime Regret International Public Service Halt International Community

Author:Madeleine Albright