T Quotes
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“The essential thing is to be blind to our results. Our soul doesn’t need to go anywhere. It doesn’t need to advance. It only needs to be honest. That’s the holiness it deserves. And that’s how the right advances happen.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“The essential thing is to bear always in mind that trouble can appear at any time.
Be aware.Be ready.Be alert.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.”
“The essential thing is to run period!
And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.”
“The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.”
“The essential thing we need to understand is that the climate crisis is not some future threat, but a very present peril, the biggest one humans have ever encountered. Until we understand that, we'll dawdle.”
“The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.”
“The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.”
“The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.”
Source: Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.”
Source: The Data of Ethics: Great Essays
“The essential truth lies elsewhere. “Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap” is the truth which needs re-emphasizing.”
Source: Problems of Humanity
“The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic
and took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.
But the thing was, you kept going. You kept your friends and your
family and your mate as safe as you were able. And you kept fighting even
after you were knocked down.”
Source: Lover Mine
“The essential unity of the formal and material principles of the Reformation lies in the fact that to affirm that Christianity was, formally and materially, solus Christus was perceived by the Reformers ultimately to depend upon the concurrent affirmation that Christ and his benefits could be known sola scriptura.”
Source: The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
“The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.”
Source: Re:
“The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...”
“The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.”
Source: Earthseed: The Complete Series
“The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.”
“The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.”
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”
“The established authorities seize control over you once you stop questioning what is true.”
“The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It's the one-time-only characters that I don't remember where the voice I used came from.”
“The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty years, I hope you are not so foolish as to think that holy things will easily get the mastery.”
“The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.”
“The established truth is that everything that hurts your feelings now makes you stronger in the future, and everyone who ignores you now makes you a more attractive person in the future. Everyone who lets you down and abandons you now makes you more independent in managing your life’s affairs. All the things that you go through and view as trials in your life are the main motivation for you to be a successful person in the future. You do not need anyone. Be optimistic”
“The establishment by the UN in 1975 of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People clearly affirmed the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination; and the requirements of a permanent population, a territory with reasonably clearly defined borders, an effective government, and independence from other States are at least arguably as well met as they were in the case of some other entities when they were admitted to the UN as States.”
Source: International Law: A Very Short Introduction
“The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at”
“The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.”
“The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.”
“The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.”
“The Establishment Clause stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders of our Constitution that religion is too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its 'unhallowed perversion' by a civil magistrate.”
“The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.”
“The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.”
“The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.”
“The Establishment is always against protest.”
“The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.”
Source: The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
“The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.”
“The establishment is doing everything it can to overturn a duly elected presidency and president. And their allies, of course, are those in the media. Without the media, none of this would be possible.”
“The establishment is in crisis. Popular opinion is on our side. But we have to step out of our comfortable clubhouse and into the terrain of politics. The little clubhouse called "activism" is moldy and decaying. We no longer fit inside of its self-defeating walls. We have to walk away from the sideshow if we want to seize the main stage. This is not about "selling out" or "watering down" our politics or becoming "less radical". There is nothing "radical" about an atachment to outsiderness and marginality. And what is more radical than believing that everyday people can come together and organize a collective vehicle powerful enough to remake the world?”
Source: Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
“The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.”
Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington
“The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new.”
“The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.”
“The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.”
“The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success”
“The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.”
“The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.”
“The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.”
Source: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
“The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.”