T Quotes
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“The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.”
“The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.”
“The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.”
Source: Napoleon
“The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.”
“The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.”
Source: Autobiography
“The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.”
“The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet
“The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.”
“The morality of art is in its very beauty.”
“The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.”
“The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.”
“The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”
Source: The Age of Paradox
“The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.”
Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy
“The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?”
“The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”
Source: In Praise of Idleness
“The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed.”
Source: History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne
“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”
“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”
“The morals rise at sunrise. When the light comes, we are already there.”
“The more 'otter it is, the more 'otter otters likes it”
Source: Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall
“The more [people] know about the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the less they support it.”
“The more a being is broken in love,
The more whole a being becomes.
Awareness is born of brokenness,
It's in darkness that insight comes.
It is in darkness that,
heart shines the brightest,
It is darkness that shows the lane.
Don't lose heart, o lover loco,
Everybody can love when happy,
Only a few can love in pain.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.”
“The more a certain product activates the reward center with its unique characteristics or its predominant social stature, the more that product gets chiseled into the long-term memory of the consumer, making it a fundamental part of the individual's psychological well being.”
“The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.”
Source: Make Self-Knowledge Great Again
“The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.”
“The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.”
Source: The Red Tent
“The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.”
“The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.”
Source: On War
“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.”
“The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”
Source: Zen
“The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.”
“The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.”
Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories
“The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.”
“The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.”
“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.”
“The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]”
“The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.”
“The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.”
“The more a man dreams, the less he believes.”
Source: Prejudices Second Series
“The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.”
Source: A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon
“The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.”
Source: Hufeland's art of prolonging life
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words