T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?”
“The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.”
“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”
Source: The Oxford history of the American people
“The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.”
“The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.”
“The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.”
“The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.”
“The freedom I give myself for the business is in deciding to take part in the Paris collections, but also having other retail strategies that are unlike anybody else's. Not necessarily going into malls, doing the business my own way - having different brands to cover different concepts, to be able to have the cash flow to carry on.”
“The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could.”
“The freedom I hold as an artist is endless.
For years, I have had full control over my creative journey—no one defines what I create or how I create it.
I have composed some of the greatest soundtracks ever written, and now, I bring my visions to life through art I truly love.
Be free. Enjoy my world.”
— Sami Abouzid”
“The freedom I want is located in a world where we wouldn't need to love women, or even monitor our feelings about women as meaningful—in which we wouldn't need to parse the contours of female worth and liberation by paying meticulous personal attention to any of this at all.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“The freedom message brings us together, it doesn't divide us.”
“The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.”
“The freedom movement was expansive. It was about transforming the entire country. It was not simply about acquiring civil rights within a framework that itself would not change.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history.”
Source: Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution
“The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.”
“The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.”
“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
“The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.”
“The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.”
“The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, tennis, research-clamored for his attention. But today nothing seemed important. He suspected that nothing had ever been important, that his mind had arbitrarily imbued projects with importance and then cunningly covered its traces. Today he saw through the ruse of a lifetime. Today there was nothing important to do, and he ambled aimlessly down Union Street.”
Source: The Schopenhauer Cure
“The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.”
“The freedom of being you can only be given by self.”
“The freedom of birds is an insult to me.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.”
“The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.”
“The freedom of God's people did not occur in a vacuum. There were consequences. There was truth-telling. And there was a disturbingly costly justice. There could be no liberation without it. You might ask yourself if you can ever really be free if you have not received justice for your bondage. But as Bayard Rustin said, "When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
Justice does not always come in the manner we long for, but there is always a path to it.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.”
“The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.”
“The Freedom of Kenya wasn’t won by one tribe, yet some keep editing the script for profit. Until we unlearn that myth, compensation will always fund a falsehood.”
“The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.”
“The freedom of life involves compassion, patience, joy, and total meditation.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.”
“The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.”
“The freedom of new thinking unshackles our minds from constraints, conventional wisdom, and established norms and spurs us to challenge existing concepts.("The freedom of new thinking")”
“The freedom of our people is more important!” Julie says fiercely. “We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!”
Jack just smiles at her. “That’s a nice lie to believe,” he says.”
Source: The Body Electric
“The freedom of patient speech is necessary if the doctor is to get clues about the medical enigma before him. If the patient is inhibited, or cut off prematurely, or constrained into one path of discussion, then the doctor may not be told something vital. Observers have noted that, on average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.”
Source: How Doctors Think
“The freedom of people to organize themselves as they want is just as important for curbing totalitarianism — and for addressing other problems — as is the freedom to speak up against these things. The freedom to use words is of limited value without the freedom to put action behind them.”
Source: Reasoned Politics
“The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.”
“The freedom of poetic license.”
“The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.”
“The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.”
Source: Seventy Years of Life and Labour: An Autobiography
“The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.”
“The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'”
“The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.”
“The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.”