T Quotes
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“The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.”
Source: The Erasmus Reader
“The majority of the crowd had looked human from a distance, but once she was among them, she had her doubts. Some were human shaped but had green or blue skin. A number had horns rising from their foreheads, short and pointed as antelopes'. One woman walked by with a rack of antlers that would do any stag proud, and small black birds seated on each tine, wearing silver collars around their necks.
Others were not even human shaped. A trio of boards in starched collars, walking on their hind legs, went grunting past. Six white rats, each nearly three feet tall, carried a palanquin on their shoulders. And who could guess what lay beneath the pale braids that covered that figure from head to toe?”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.”
“The majority of the employees here are civilians," explained my Alderman guide/protector/companion/would-be-executioner as we strode without a word to the security guards through the foyer towards the lifts. "They conduct themselves within perfectly standard financial services and regulations. There is one specialist suboperational department catering to the financing of more...unusual extra-capital ventures, and the executive assets who operate it have to undergo a rigorous level of training, psyche evaluation, personality assessment, and team operational analyses."
We stared at him, and said, "We barely understood the little words."
"No," he replied, "I didn't think you would.”
Source: The Midnight Mayor
“The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.”
“The majority of the foreign workers who lived here were Mohammedans, still deeply traditionalist in their attitude toward the female body, and who tended to regard her revealing outfit as either an impertinence or an invitation.
[...]
— We're insulting them. We're behaving like racists. Walking around here like a pair of voyeurs, like visitors to a zoo...
[...]
— I simply don't understand.
— Can you see how they are looking at you?
— No. Besides, it's you they are looking at, more than me.
— That's it exactly. It's their way.
— Their way of what? Would you explain to me, for the love of heaven, what's going on here? What's bothering you?
I stopped short.
— Don't you know what racism is?
— But...
— Racism is when it doesn't count. When they don't count. When one can do anything with them, it doesn't matter what , because they are not people like us. Do you see? Not our kind. When we can make use of them as we please, without losing face, dignity, honor. Without embarrassment, without making a moral judgement - that's it. When we can make them do no matter what degrading work, service, because their opinion of us doesn't count, because it cannot tarnish us. That's what racism is.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.”
“The majority of the hundred stone faces I see belong to grownups. Daydreaming is something I see children doing constantly. Most youths are perpetually on the lookout for anything that will fill their precious time and passion; some seek out short-term adventures, while others aim for more substantial, lasting memories.”
“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”
Source: The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'
“The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“The majority of the organizations assume that highly experienced individuals in certain areas, perhaps people with over 26 years' worth of work experience in the same company in specific expertise, make for great managers. Many organizations are being led by individuals who have been within the company for a significant number of years”
Source: Sometimes it's your workplace: "A toxic workplace doesn't end at the office ,it follows you into every part of your life."
“The majority of the peasants take little or no interest in the problems of communism or anti-communism. They are direct victims of the war, and consequently they welcome every effort in the direction of ending the war.”
Source: Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire
“The majority of the people create their own demons. Therefore, the real demon is your mindset and your ability to imagine.”
“The majority of the people do not seem to agree upon
one single law that can be used with less effort in attracting the ideal life partner to us.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.”
“The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's not just about me capturing the image; I want to know what you are about.”
“The majority of the people in this country love America, do not dislike it, do not distrust it. The majority of people in this country do not want our culture further attacked and rotted away. The people of this country are sick and tired of not having any good-paying jobs anymore. The people of this country are sick and tired of being told that America's best days have already happened.”
“The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning”
“The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.”
“The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.”
“The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.”
Source: Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review (Large Print 16pt)
“The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war is nothing other than a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty.”
“The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.”
“The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.”
“The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.”
“The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.”
“The majority of the world sells bullsh*t and the majority of us buy it some or the other way.”
“The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.”
“The majority of these old farts are content to crash out in a drunken stupor on the backbenches. They just want to pick up their company directorships at £200,000 a year, claim for everything they ever spend personally on expenses and make sure not to rock the boat. I have better things to do with my time than to waste it by voting a different yarn-spinning joker-in-the-pack in. Whoever's in power is not going to affect me in any way. And if you believe otherwise then you can truly nail your colours to the mast of stupidity”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.”
“The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.”
“The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.”
“The majority of us are the players, and only a few make the rules of the game. Playing can be fun, but getting to make the rules is far more empowering.
It all starts with your idea. If it's your idea, you get to make the rules.... but unless you find something that the players find interesting, no one will play your game.”
Source: IN THE ARENA: Unleash Your Entrepreneurial Spirit, Make Your Idea a Roaring Success
“The majority of us do have answers to other people's problems.”
“The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.”
Source: The Highest Good / The Pilgrim's Song Book / Thy Great Redemption
“The majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own judgement”
“The majority of us were from single parent family homes. You could have counted the fellas on your fingers that had a mummy and a daddy at home. Anthony ‘Ada’ Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.”
“The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.”
“The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.”
“The majority of women in America look like me.”
“The majority of women, like the mice trapped in the drug company experiment, are confined in a woman hating culture from which they cannot escape. They suffer continual shocks: Verbal, sexual, emotional and physical abuse in and outside the home, pervasive social contempt, a sense of powerlessness and despair, and a lack of control over their ability to work effectively or even take care of their own children. Women’s depression, as feminists have pointed out, is a logical and rational response to having one’s human rights continually abused. Depression, burnout, or learned helplessness can be compared to the ways in which the mice freeze when they hear the sound before their torture.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.”
“The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.”
“The majority people of this world get fooled by the so called "good looking" people. Taking conventional standards of the world, these so called "good looking" individuals are often the most boring people. They fool most people into liking them because of their looks. They lack depth in most things. They lack passion. They lack empathy. They lack emotional quotient. They don't go deep into most subjects. They present a facade of knowledge. They have what the world calls a "swag."
They get away in most situations by projecting an exterior based on only their good looks. They don't have creativity. They don't read books. They don't know about art. They cannot talk about philosophy. They don't understand psychology. They are not deep into economics and the topics of most sciences.”
“The majority people seem to assume that sensuality means the amount of sex you have, or the amount of desire you have to have sex, or how seductive a woman is. But here’s the truth, sensuality is actually a reflection of the QUALITY of the ’inner’ life you already have. This quality can be infused in different areas including your sex life.”
“The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.”
Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections