T Quotes
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“The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.”
“The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.”
“The nation has not faced the long term of its embrace of legal sports betting, which was facilitated by profit-hungry companies and revenue-hungry lawmakers.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.”
“The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.”
“The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.”
“The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.”
“The nation is built upon the foundation of its homes and the home upon its families.”
“The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.”
“The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”
Source: Mark Twain Speaking
“The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.”
“The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.”
“The nation is in the middle of a rapid embrace of gambling with no overall direction, just more more more. But how much gambling is too much?”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of prosperity”
“The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.”
“The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?”
“The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'”
“The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.”
“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.”
“The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.”
“The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.”
“The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.”
“The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.”
“The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.”
“The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.”
“The nation of Iran is threatening to sue the makers of the movie Argo. They say the movie was an unrealistic portrayal of their country. You can't do that! That would be like Scotland suing over the movie Shrek.”
“The Nation of Islam is the best known Black Muslim group, though its actual numbers may be no more than 100,000. However, many blacks who are not, themselves, Muslims have great respect for the group’s leader, Louis Farrakhan. Users of the Internet arm of Black Entertainment Television, BET.com, chose him as the black “person of the year” for 2005. Mr. Farrakhan was elected over Oprah Winfrey, then-Senator Barack Obama, Robert L. Johnson, who started BET, and the victims of Hurricane Katrina. “An overwhelming percentage of our users agreed that Minister Farrakhan made the most positive impact on the Black community over the past year,” explained a BET spokesman.
What did Mr. Farrakhan do to deserve that honor? He received heavy news coverage twice that year. Once was when he promoted the theory that whites blew up the New Orleans levees to destroy black neighborhoods. The other was when he organized a “Millions More Movement” on the National Mall to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Million Man March. On that occasion, Michael Muhammad, National Youth Minister for the Nation of Islam declaimed: “We want to say to our young brothers of the Crips and the Bloods that we are one family. The real enemy doesn’t wear blue, but white, even when he’s butt naked.”
Ayinde Baptiste of the Nation of Islam added: “We are at war here in America. . . . We need soldiers now. We need black male soldiers, we need black feminist soldiers, we need Crips and Bloods soldiers . . . soldiers in the prisons, soldiers in the streets.” The Congressional Black Caucus endorsed the event, and five black congressmen attended it.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.”
“The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.”
“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.”
“the nation's young men have
been proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a whole
generation of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun and
don't need to wash anyone else's socks.”
Source: Bridget Jones’s Diary
“The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.”
“The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.”
“The nation should move towards one target, one direction, one intention and one decision.”
“The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.”
“The nation-state furnished an ideology of national identity that made it easier to rally people for military adventures that their rulers considered profitable. The “common language and culture” of each of these new entities was in no way a natural human community like early tribes and bands. Rather, they were created by brutal conquest such as that of the British over the Irish, Scots, and the Welsh, or the Castilian Spaniards’ conquest of the Basques and the Catalans.”
Source: A New World In Our Hearts: 8 Years of Writings from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
“The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.”
“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
“The nation that has the schools has the future.”
“The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.”
“The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.”
“The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.”
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
Source: Charles George Gordon
“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.”
Source: Charles George Gordon
“The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
unwilling serfs”
“The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.”
“The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.”
“The nation was cracking under the weight of bloated modernity and all the patches pasted onto its excessive and malfunctioning hypercomplexity, and people were bewildered by the strange glitches, failures and shortages. Going forward, nothing would really work anymore as it was designed to, yet the hope and expectation that it would all magically recover dominated the chatter in the rare moments when people could step back from their frantic lives and share a meal or a drink.”
Source: The Harrows of Spring