T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.”
“The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.”
Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“The freelance EIC had at its peak just 1,500 administrative officers and about 19,000 police and soldiers for an area one third the size of the continental United States. As such, it exerted virtually no control over most areas, which were in the hands either of Arab slave-traders and African warlords, or of native soldiers nominally in the employ of Belgian concession companies without a white man for a hundred miles. Hochschild’s description of the EIC as “totalitarian” is bizarre, as is his claim that Léopold exerted a “framework of control…across his enormous realm.” If only this were true.”
Source: King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.”
“The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.”
“The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.”
“The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.”
Source: Class warfare: interviews with David Barsamian
“The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.”
“The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...”
“The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.”
Source: I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education
“The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.”
Source: Social Statics: Great Essays
“The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.”
Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
“The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.”
“The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.”
“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
“The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
“The freeway is just like veins without a heart.”
“The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.”
Source: Norma Jean, the termite queen
“The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.”
“The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.”
“The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.”
Source: DUNE
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
Source: DUNE
“The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn.”
“The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.”
“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.”
Source: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
“the french ambassador to spain, meeting cervantes,congratulated him on the great success and reputation gained by his "don quixote"; whereupon the author whispered in his ear: "had it not been for the inquisition, i should have made my book much more entertaining.”
“The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.”
Source: The wit of Peter Ustinov
“The French announced today that they would not help us remove Saddam from Iraq. Well Duh! They didn't even help us remove Hitler
from France.”
“The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.”
“The french are a moral people--judged, that is, by american country club standards.”
Source: The Short Reign of Pippin IV
“The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.”
“The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader
“The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.”
Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
“The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.”
“The French are completely without scruples, energy or valor - the Great War castrated them and left them diminished, whiney, mistaking bickering for debate and shrillness for eloquence, they are a nation in such effete decline that Shickelgrubber, when he finally attacks them, might be dancing with the keys to Paris in his hand after a week or two of puny skirmishing.”
Source: The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim
“The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.”
“The French are like a coin with a different face on either side of it (every coin has two faces), for every action there is an equally strong opposing idea that vibrates on the other end within them like the receiving side of a series of ripples in a pond. But this is all happening within themselves. The French are exactly like their own language: there are too many letters but then you're not supposed to pronounce them!”
“The French are masters of "the dog ate my homework" school of diplomatic relations.”
“The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.”
“The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.”
“The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“The French are predictably unpredictable.”
“The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.”
“The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.”
“The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.”
“The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.”
“The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.”
“The French are very individualistic.”
“The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.”
“The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.”