T Quotes
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“The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.”
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
“The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. Nor need one try to stay within the limits of plausibility: on the contrary, the grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. Nor is there any need to avoid contradictions: the mob never notices; needless to pretend to correlate what is said to some with what is said to others: each person or group believes only what he is told, not what anyone else is told; needless to strive for coherence: the mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”
Source: Réflexions sur le mensonge
“The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.”
“The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.”
“The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).”
Source: The God Delusion
“The mob, in the spirit of the age, obsessed with being on the right side of history, often ends up on the wrong side of history.”
“The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.”
Source: L.P.
“The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.”
“The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.”
“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“The mob is the mother of tyrants.”
“The mob loves those who amuse and serve it. But to amuse it you have to love it. I love no one, least of all the mob, because the mob, the multitude, are like women: they betray those who love them.”
Source: Cocaine
“The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.”
“The mob mentality may keep you safe, but your soul will pay for it in the end.”
“The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.”
Source: WALDEN TWO
“The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.”
“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”
Source: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.”
“The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.”
Source: The Hero in History: Myth, Power, Or Moral Ideal? : Remarks
“The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of the world and great men of the world come out from their studies and their laboratories and their palaces, and cry, "Away with this man! Away with him!" The most bitter hostility which many of the learned men of this day exercise in any direction they exercise against Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour of the world.”
“The mob was engaging in a performative group activity.”
Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
“The mob will now and then see things in a right light.”
“The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.”
“The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.”
Source: Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses
“The mobile industry changed Africa.”
“The mobile industry quickly developed, and lawyers, investment bankers, consultants and contractors offered their services. The feeling of ownership of the projects and the effort of getting networks up and running within the shortest possible time span was gigantic. Engineers slept in their cars to make sure that they could start early mornings, ‘war rooms’ were kitted out with huge maps, project timelines, pictures and milestone markers. Contests ongoing between different teams in the specific country regions where we were building. Employing a thousand people in no time and generating work for tenfold that number; network and other suppliers, construction companies, distributors, retailers and other often highly skilled third parties.”
Source: Your phone, my life: Or, how did that phone land in your hand?
“The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.”
“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”
“The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.”
“The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.”
“The mobile phone makes the automobile even more deadly.”
“The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.”
“The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.”
“The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.”
“The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor, you are totally in reality, while also experiencing this dream imagery of changing colors and wet surfaces of skin. Sometimes it's the shadow outline in the strobe light, and in another moment it's the closeup of an armpit that you're looking into. I'm not photographing all the time, but it's something that I actually see all the time, and not just on the dance floor.”
“The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is.”
“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“The mochi gradually began to take on color and swell out. When their skin seared with brown grill marks started to split open, revealing glimpses of their sparkling white insides, Rika took them out of the toaster. She perched a generous wedge of butter on top of each, and prepared the sugared soy sauce in a small dish. Watching as the molten butter flowed gently over both the burnished surface and the soft white interior, her stomach rumbled. Though she knew it was bad manners to eat standing up, she stuffed one of the mochi in her mouth right there at the counter.
The heady aroma that rose up through her nose, the crispiness of the skin as it broke open beneath her teeth, the silkiness of the gooey insides that spread themselves flat across every bit of flesh in her mouth and refused to let go... The hot butter fused the sugar and soy sauce together, clinging to the sweet, soft, shapeless mass in her mouth, swimming around its outside as though to ascertain its contours. The grease of the butter melded with the grit of the sugar and the pungent soy sauce. By the time she'd finished chewing, the roots of her teeth were trembling pleasurably.”
Source: Butter
“The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.”
“The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.”
Source: Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel
“The mockery towards the ignorant reflects ignorance.”
“The Mockingjay lives.”
Source: Mockingjay