T Quotes
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“The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.”
“The masses need to change their thoughts away from thinking that the military is protecting them to the reality that the military is allowing toxic corporations to damage their health to boost profits.”
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit.”
“The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.”
Source: Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah
“The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to alleviate their miseries.”
“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly proclaimed their own inferiority and my superiority. In this great crowd of men, among whom I hardly find any who are my equals, I alone am capable of administering public affairs. The people need me; they cannot get along without my services, while I am sufficient unto myself. They must therefore obey me for their own good, and I, by deigning to command them, create their happiness and well-being." There is enough here to turn anyone's head and corrupt the heart and make one swell with pride, isn't there? That is how power and the habit of commanding become a source of aberration, both intellectual and moral, even for the most intelligent and most virtuous of men.”
“The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.”
“The masses sitting using computers daily has coincided with a health crisis in the population.”
Source: Pandemic Supplements
“The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.”
“The masses will fight to preserve their liberties and freedoms, save for those who have fallen under a spell of delusion by the demagogue.”
“The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.”
“The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.”
“The masses with firearms are like newborns with knives.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.”
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.”
“The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.”
“The massive bronze gates were wide open now, too late. Inside, the cemetery had been turned into a grotesque place gleaming with high-powered searchlights, blue flashlight flares, winking pocket torches. Uniformed men were already swarming about. Red cigarette-embers showed oddly amidst the headstones here and there.
("The Street Of Jungle Death")”
Source: Vampire's Honeymoon
“The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.”
Source: On the revolutions
“The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.”
“The massive COVID-19 outbreak in New York City demonstrated that dense urban environments are undesirable places for humans to live.”
“The massive damage to the electrical grids in Florida and Puerto Rico in 2022 created an ideal time to discuss electrical utility frauds and their flaky utility systems.”
“The massive deployment of wireless radiation infrastructure around universities has turned education into a known biologically hazardous job.”
“The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert air, wondering whether to tell the world the wonders he had seen, and, if so, how. Amazing things. Other-worldly things. Also a set of car keys. And one brown sock.”
“The massive effort of the poor goes unnoticed in our society, that's labour, while the slightest effort of the rich is quickly noticed, and that's called work.”
“The massive heart wrenching barbaric violations and battles among the international states or even the Big Powers, megalomania ,‘ folie de grandeur’,and even the UN Peace keeping forces lead us only to understand of the meager contribution to the subject of IHL”
Source: Rudiments of International Humanitarian Law
“The massive lawfare, assassination attempts, sexual assaults and rapes, character assassination, shaming and sexual objectification, children abuse among many other attacks on the SPH and His followers, especially the female followers, has been taken a serious note of and the report published on the UN website by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) -”
“The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.”
Source: The affluent society
“The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.”
“The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.”
“The massive use of the deep surface area with nanotechnology is a revolution. Just imagine the world without LCDs, quantum dots, touch screens, and other technologies.”
“The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.”
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.”
“The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.”
“The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.”
“The master always keeps a piece of learning--that is to say, a piece of the student's ignorance--up his sleeve. I understood that, says the satisfied student. You think so, corrects the master. in fact, there's a difficulty here that I've been sparing you until now. We will explain it when we get to the corresponding lesson. What does this mean? asks the curious student. I could tell you, responds the master, but it would be premature: you wouldn't understand at all. It will be explained to you next year. The master is always a length ahead of the student, who always feels that in order to go farther he must have another master, supplementary explications. Thus does the triumphant Achilles drag Hector's corpse, attached to his chariot, around the city of Troy.”
Source: The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
“The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.”
“The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge.”
Source: Firethorn
“The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life.”
“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”
“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.”
“The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.”
Source: The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels
“The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.”
“The master does not attack to harm. The master attacks only to defend the integrity of her people.”
“The master does not care where the game begins but where it ends”
“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke of a pen, but the pressing call of necessity will reestablish it.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.”
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.”
“The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values.”
“The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.”