T Quotes
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“The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we need to achieve real, substantive political power, and we need to get there fast.”
“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”
“The fate of man is man.”
Source: Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti: Book of Interventions in the Flow of Things
“The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.”
Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.”
“The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.”
“The fate of our national mammal is decided by ranchers who act as self-appointed representatives of the American people.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”
“The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.”
“The Fate of the ancients is nothing other than the conscious certainty that all events are bound firmly together by the chain of causality and thus occur with strict necessity, so that the future is already totally fixed and precisely determined, and can no more be altered than the past can.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“The fate of the architect is the strangest of all in this way. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.”
“The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.”
“The fate of the books and all their vast numbers, is epitomized in the greatest library in the ancient world, a library located not in Italy but in Alexandria, the capital of Egypt and the commercial hub of the Eastern Mediterranean. The city had many tourist attractions, including an impressive theater and red light district. But visitors always took note of something quite exceptional, in the center of the city, at the lavish site known as "the museum" most of the intellectual inherits of Greek, Latin, Babylonian, Egyptian and Jewish cultures ad been assembled at enormous costs and carefully archived for researched. Starting as early as 300BCE, the Ptolemaic Kings who ruled Alexandria had the inspired idea of luring leading scholars, scientists and poets to their city by offering them life appointments at their museum...The recipients of this largess established remarkably high intellectual standards. Euclid developed his geometry in Alexandria, Archimedes discovered Pi and laid the foundation of calculus.”
Source: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!”
“The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
Source: Slavery in Massachusetts
“The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.”
“The fate of the Gospels was decided by death—it hung on the “cross.”... It was only death, that unexpected and shameful death; it was only the cross, which was usually reserved for the canaille only—it was only this appalling paradox which brought the disciples face to face with the real riddle: “Who was it? what was it?”—The feeling of dismay, of profound affront and injury; the suspicion that such a death might involve a refutation of their cause; the terrible question, “Why just in this way?”—this state of mind is only too easy to understand. Here everything must be accounted for as necessary; everything must have a meaning, a reason, the highest sort of reason; the love of a disciple excludes all chance. Only then did the chasm of doubt yawn: “Who put him to death? who was his natural enemy?”—this question flashed like a lightning-stroke. Answer: dominant Judaism, its ruling class. From that moment, one found one’s self in revolt against the established order, and began to understand Jesus as in revolt against the established order. Until then this militant, this nay-saying, nay-doing element in his character had been lacking; what is more, he had appeared to present its opposite. Obviously, the little community had not understood what was precisely the most important thing of all: the example offered by this way of dying, the freedom from and superiority to every feeling of ressentiment—a plain indication of how little he was understood at all! All that Jesus could hope to accomplish by his death, in itself, was to offer the strongest possible proof, or example, of his teachings in
the most public manner.... But his disciples were very far from forgiving his death—though to have done so would have accorded with the Gospels in the highest degree; and neither were they prepared to offer themselves, with gentle and serene calmness of heart, for a similar death.... On the contrary, it was precisely the most unevangelical of feelings, revenge, that now possessed them. It seemed impossible that the cause should perish with his death: “recompense” and “judgment” became necessary (—yet what could be less evangelical than “recompense,” “punishment,” and “sitting in judgment”!). Once more the popular belief in the coming of a messiah appeared in the foreground; attention was rivetted upon an historical moment: the “kingdom of God” is to come, with judgment upon his enemies.... But in all this there was a wholesale misunderstanding: imagine the “kingdom of God” as a last act, as a mere promise! The Gospels had been, in fact, the incarnation, the fulfilment, the realization of this “kingdom of God.” It was only now that all the familiar contempt for and bitterness against Pharisees and theologians began to appear in the character of the Master—he was thereby turned into a Pharisee and theologian himself!”
“The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that, by virtue of their very mission, validate economic efficiency and productivity above all else also sanction apathy toward the humanities. (p. 97)”
Source: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
“The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.”
“The fate of the nation and the fate of the currency are one and the same.”
“The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.”
“The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.”
“The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.”
“The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.”
“The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.”
Source: Ecology and our endangered life-support systems
“The fate of the sun was to burn bright and, soon after, burst and burn out, killing and cooling and bleeding into darkness. That was their relationship.”
“The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.”
“The fate of the universe lies in your lung capacity.”
“The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!”
“The fate of the world has always been worsened by people running away from the darkness, and it has always been improved by the help of people defying the darkness!”
“The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.”
“The fate of the world rests upon the purity of your hearts, the depth of your emotions, and the wisdom of your mind.”
Source: Serafina Krin i srce sveta
“The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers
“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
“The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.”
“The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.”
“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.”
Source: In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography
“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”
Source: This Lullaby
“The fate of your next birth is written by the karma of this birth”
“The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The fates are envious, I think,” she said. Tiersias looked to her. She gazed angrily into the fire. “To seek destruction. To bring malice. Time is the eater of all great things; how unfortunate that being good is to be destined for death.”
Source: Tower of Circe
“The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”