Adam Yauch Quotes

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.

If I have written too polemically, it is only because of the passionate concern that we consider because it is too late whether we truly know what we are doing.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.