T Quotes
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“The ideas that accompany that victory, the ideas and the policies that are related to those ideas that are implemented after you win the election. And then it's not just one election; you have to keep winning elections. You have to keep defeating liberals, and it's the same thing here in the Brexit vote.”
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
“The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.”
“The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.”
“The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.”
“The ideas you have in mind tell the most of who you are.
Some ideas are existential luxury.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.”
Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.”
“The identities may develop in number, complexity, and sense of separateness as the child proceeds through latency, adolescence, and adulthood (R. P. Kluft, 1984; Putnam, 1997).
—Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision”
“The identities people foster in their afterlives are rarely arrived at incidentally--they do not wander haphazardly into their passions, careers, perspectives, and beliefs. The individuals they become are forged in voids, sowed on fallow land, pursued against the finest of margins, and people seize on them because their survival in some sense depends on it.”
Source: What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us: Who We Become After Tragedy and Trauma
“The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.”
“The identity I describe as “self” is simply an aspect, as I am consciousness experiencing itself in manifest form”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”
“The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.”
“The identity of the city, because of the laws that define it, depends on some sort of banning or exclusion. The individual identity required the reverse: a constant effort of inclusion, a story reminding Gilgamesh that, in order to know who one is, we need two.”
Source: La cité des mots: CBC Massey Lectures
“The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.”
“The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.”
“The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.”
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of political solution or systemic reorganization. It is necessary to act straight away, we were told; politics has to be suspended in the name of ethical immediacy. Bono’s Product Red brand wanted to dispense even with the philanthropic intermediary. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands’, Bono proclaimed. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce’. The point was not to offer an alternative to capitalism - on the contrary, Product Red’s ‘punk rock’ or ‘hip hop’ character consisted in its ‘realistic’ acceptance that capitalism is the only game in town. No, the aim was only to ensure that some of the proceeds of particular transactions went to good causes. The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products.”
Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“The ideological foundation of today's business schools is that economic control should be shifted out of government hands into those of financial managers - that is, Wall Street.”
“The ideological man is thus both absolutely suspicious and absolutely enthusiastic. There seems to be no idea under the sun that he would not put into question and make an object of derision, skepticism, or contempt, no idea that he would not reduce to an offshoot of hidden instincts, mundane interests, biological drives, and psychological complexes. Hence he is likely to despise reason as an autonomous faculty, to downgrade lofty ideals, and to debunk the past, seeing everywhere the same ideological mystification. But at the same time, he lives in a constant state of mobilization for a better world. His mouth is full of noble slogans about brotherhood, freedom, and justice, and with every word he makes it clear that he knows which side is right and that he is ready to sacrifice his entire existence for the sake of its victory. The peculiar combination of both attitudes--merciless distrust and unwavering affirmation--gives him an incomparable sense of moral self-confidence and intellectual self-righteousness.”
Source: The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
“The ideological premise, however, "can" not be defective; it is sacrosanct. ... Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is beyond all doubt. In (t)his way the ideology immunizes itself by offering more and more hair-splitting accusations. Betrayal and the dark powers of inner and outer enemies lie in wait everywhere. Theories about conspiracies develop and conveniently hide the absurdity of the premise, necessitating and justifying bloody purges.”
Source: Münchhausen's Pigtail, or Psychotherapy & "Reality"
“The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems.”
“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”
Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“The ideology of collectivism versus individualism, The “I”, the individual, must be left behind and allow the “we”, the citizens, to take form first.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“The ideology of high modernism provides, as it were, the desire; the modern state provides the means of acting on that desire; and the incapacitated civil society provides the leveled terrain on which to build (dis)utopias.”
Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“The “ideology of Taylorism all but ensured a workplace divided against itself, both in space and in practice, with a group of managers controlling how work was done and their workers merely performing that work,” he writes. “It became increasingly clear . . . from the distance between the top and the bottom rungs of the ‘ladder,’ that some workers were never going to join the upper layers of management. For some, work was always, frankly, going to suck.”
“The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.”
“The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.”
Source: Travels in Hyperreality
“The ideology of white supremacy, based on the subjugation of the black man in Rhodesia, denied the black man his full fundamental human rights and freedoms in his own native land and built a wall between black and white. The blacks decided, as the last resort, tha they were going to shoot down this wall; but the whites decided that this wall was to be maintained at any cost in spite of the glaring injustices inherent in it.”
Source: Roots of a Revolution: Scenes from Zimbabwe's Struggle
“The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.”
“The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.”
“The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
The meadow creeps implacable and still;
A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
One two three the cows bulge on the hill.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.”
“The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped”
“The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.”
Source: Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury
“The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.”
“The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.”
Source: Afterlands
“The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.”
Source: Go: A Novel
“The idiots who say they're having a great day at the zoo must know that the animals there are just having a terrible time every day!”
“The idle always have a mind to do something.”
“The idle brain is the devil's playground.”
“The idle life I lead
Is like a pleasant sleep,
Wherein I rest and heed
The dreams that by me sweep.”
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”
“The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.”
Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works
“The idle man is the devil's cushion.”
Source: Works: Devotional works
“The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“The idle mind is a house of the devil,
Idle nations religious wars,
Ideal heart returning towards God,
Ideal nation repenting and fearful of God.”
Source: The Inward Journey