T Quotes
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“The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.”
“The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.”
“The loss of Jarlaxle and the others, which seemed more likely than not, was hitting him harder than any loss he had ever known. He had been more outraged at the fall of House Oblodra those many decades before, but even with that catastrophe, even with the loss of his mother and family, he had not felt like this. For now, for the first time in his centuries of life, Kimmuriel Oblodra realized a profound sense of sadness, a level of grief that wouldn’t even allow him to plot or scheme around it, whether to find some manner of revenge or to better protect himself from any repercussions. None of that even seemed to matter at this time.
He was just sad. Nakedly so.”
Source: Glacier's Edge
“The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.”
“The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.”
“The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.”
“The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.”
“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”
Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes
“The loss of life will be irreplaceable.”
“The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.”
Source: It's all in the playing
“The loss of meaning for words like ‘racism’ and ‘anti-racism’ is a concrete risk when they're used improperly or instrumentally.”
Source: The Fetish of Welcome
“The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.”
“The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.”
“The loss of my marriage didn’t have to mean the loss of me.”
“The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.”
“The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.”
Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”
“The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.”
“The loss of one leg, arm, or eye, or its function, almost always blinds one to the fact that the very same thing could have happened to the other one too.”
“The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.”
“The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.”
“The loss of our loved one is always terrifying, but there is nothing we can do when all remedies fail.”
“The loss of political diversity among professor, particularly in fields that deal with politicized content, can undermine the quality and rigor of scholarly research... when a field lacks political diversity, researchers tend to congregate around questions and research methods that generally confirm their shared narrative, while ignoring questions and methods that don't offer such support.
The loss of political diversity among the faculty has negative consequences for students, too, in three ways. First, there's the problem that many college students have little or no exposure to professors from half of the political spectrum. Many students graduate with an inaccurate understanding of conservatives, politics, and much of the United States...
Second, the loss of viewpoint diversity among the faculty means that what students learn about politically controversial topics will often be "left shifted" from the truth.
[The third problem] is the risk that some academic communities- particularly those in the most progressive parts of the country- may attain such high levels of political homogeneity and solidarity that they undergo a phase change, taking on properties of a collective entity that are antithetical to the normal aims of a university... Politically homogenous communities are more susceptible to witch hunts”
Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“The loss of public interest, however, did not mean the end of world order aspirations. Quite the opposite; the "big idea" of world organization remained active within elite circles, largely operating beyond the knowledge or concern of the public. A corollary was this: As public memory fogged with the advance of time, the notion of world government - once openly identified and celebrated - faded into our cultural background, eventually slipping into the realm of "conspiracy theory.”
Source: Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment
“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.”
“The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.”
“The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.”
Source: Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
“The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.”
“The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.”
Source: Can Man Live Without God
“The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.”
“The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need myths, we need family legends in order to see the invisible legacy that follows us, that tells us who we are.”
“The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.”
“The loss of the object of love is, for the human unconscious, so much worse than the damnation of the Being, hence the fragmentation of consciousness resulting from this possibility. The persistence of the ego, in these conditions, must be given by the recognition of the ego as an extension of the totality of the world of life, or, of the transcendence of the Self, that is, it is beyond the instant, conditions or materiality - the immortal soul of ancient religions or, the non-duality of Buddhism.”
“The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.”
Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses
“The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”
“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.”
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.”
“The loss of white ethno-cultural confidence manifests itself in other ways. Among the most important is a growing unwillingness to indulge the anti-white ideology of the cultural left. When whites were an overwhelming majority, empirically unsupported generalizations about whites could be brushed off as amusing and mischievous but ultimately harmless. As whites decline, fewer are willing to abide such attacks. At the same time, white decline emboldens the cultural left, with its dream of radical social transformation.”
Source: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
“The loss of white ethno-cultural confidence manifests itself in other ways. Among the most important is a growing unwillingness to indulge the anti-white ideology of the cultural left. When whites were an overwhelming majority, empirically unsupported generalizations about whites could be brushed off as amusing and mischievous but ultimately harmless. As whites decline, fewer are willing to abide such attacks. At the same time, white decline emboldens the cultural left, with its dream of radical social transformation. ...
From a modern perspective, the most important figure to emerge from this milieu is Randolph Bourne. Viewed as a spokesman for the new youth culture in upper-middle-class New York, Bourne burst onto the intellectual scene with an influential essay in the respected Atlantic Monthly in July 1916 entitled ‘Trans-National America’. Here Bourne was influenced by Jewish-American philosopher Horace Kallen. Kallen was both a Zionist and a multiculturalist. Yet he criticized the Liberal Progressive worldview whose cosmopolitan zeal sought to consign ethnicity to the dustbin of history. Instead, Kallen argued that ‘men cannot change their grandfathers’. Rather than all groups giving and receiving cultural influence, as in Dewey’s vision, or fusing together, as mooted by fellow Zionist Israel Zangwill in his play The Melting Pot (1910), Kallen spoke of America as a ‘federation for international colonies’ in which each group, including the Anglo-Saxons, could maintain their corporate existence. There are many problems with Kallen’s model, but there can be no doubt that he treated all groups consistently.
Bourne, on the other hand, infused Kallen’s structure with WASP self-loathing. As a rebel against his own group, Bourne combined the Liberal Progressives’ desire to transcend ‘New Englandism’ and Protestantism with Kallen’s call for minority groups to maintain their ethnic boundaries. The end product was what I term asymmetrical multiculturalism, whereby minorities identify with their groups while Anglo-Protestants morph into cosmopolites. Thus Bourne at once congratulates the Jew ‘who sticks proudly to the faith of his fathers and boasts of that venerable culture of his’, while encouraging his fellow Anglo-Saxons to:
"Breathe a larger air . . . [for] in his [young Anglo-Saxon’s] new enthusiasms for continental literature, for unplumbed Russian depths, for French clarity of thought, for Teuton philosophies of power, he feels himself a citizen of a larger world. He may be absurdly superficial, his outward-reaching wonder may ignore all the stiller and homelier virtues of his Anglo-Saxon home, but he has at least found the clue to that international mind which will be essential to all men and women of good-will if they are ever to save this Western world of ours from suicide."
Bourne, not Kallen, is the founding father of today’s multiculturalist left because he combines rebellion against his own culture and Liberal Progressive cosmopolitanism with an endorsement – for minorities only – of Kallen’s ethnic conservatism. In other words, ethnic minorities should preserve themselves while the majority should dissolve itself.”
Source: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.”
“The loss that now casts its deep shadow over you is also a task to endure and a matter of coming to terms with all of the suffering that may befall us—for once the mother leaves us, we lose all protection. You have to undergo the terrible process of becoming more resilient. But in return... (and you have also begun to feel this already) in return the power of protection now becomes yours, and all the gentleness which until now you had been able to receive will blossom more and more inside of you into your new capacity to share it as something—inherited and acquired unspeakably, at the deepest price—of your own.”
Source: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
“The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.”
“The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.”
“The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain.”
Source: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
“The losses are good... if you learn something.”
“The losses in the Dervish ranks were horrendous as whole families and tribal groups were wiped out. No European army would have dreamed of facing such a wall of fire, but still they came on.”
Source: No Road to Khartoum