T Quotes
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“The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.”
Source: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
“The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.”
“The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.”
Source: The Whistlebrass Horror
“The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.”
“The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.”
“The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.”
Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers
“The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote to pubic purposes should be under the control of government, is wholly alien to the basic principles of a free society.”
“The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.”
“The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.”
“The misconception is that the genre is a breeding ground for negativity; that it is the birthplace of violence and misogynistic attitudes, and the genesis of every kind of unfavorable stereotype imaginable. When, in fact, if looked at through the lens of neutrality and open-mindedness, the virtues of hip hop far outweigh the negative stigma attached to it.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
“The misconception of something being a certainty sometimes gets to me until I remember we can change most things consciously.”
“The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.”
“The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.”
“The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.”
“The misconception that foreigners are impoverished and under privileged give rise to arrogance and feeling of superiority”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“The misconception that the world is getting worse is very difficult to maintain when we put the present in its historical context. We shouldn't diminish the tragedies of the droughts and famines happening right now. But knowledge of the tragedies of the past should help everyone realize how the world has become both much more transparent and much better at getting help to where it's needed.”
Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.”
Source: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”
Source: Science and Philosophy
“THE MISCONCEPTION: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is.
THE TRUTH: You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that’s OK, it keeps you sane.”
Source: You Are Not So Smart
“The misconducts of the virtuous outnumber the misdeeds of the vile.”
Source: Plotless
“The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.”
“The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.”
“The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.”
“The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.”
“The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
“The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The miser robs himself.”
“The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.”
“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“The miserable are sacred.”
“The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?”
“The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.”
“The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
[The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]”
“The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.”
Source: Great Expectations
“The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.”
“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.”
“The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)”
“The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“The miserly night brought very little sleep, and no solutions. It shared nothing with them, keeping every crumb of light to itself.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“The misers cheese is wholesomest”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.”
“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.”
“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.”
Source: Economic philosophy
“The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”
“The misery of life lies in our thinking".”
“The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.”