T Quotes
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“The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.”
“The opposite of rape is understanding.”
Source: The Tradition
“The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.”
Source: The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You
“The opposite of sad is down's syndrome.”
“The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.”
“The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.”
“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It's not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that's no badge of honor.”
Source: Untamed
“The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.”
“The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.”
“The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for seventy or eighty years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. However, since you know that is out of the question, you must admit, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. Those who play it safe are generally not too exciting, in fact they would probably border on being very boring personalities. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.”
“The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.”
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.”
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry”
“The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.”
“The opposite of war is not peace, it's unselfishness.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!”
“The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
[Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]”
“The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.”
“The opposite sides of personality are so different that only a great force can draw them together in union. This power is love. Love is a stronger power than the forces of disunion.
In love even the opposites can become one, and their differences unite in one indivisible whole.”
Source: The Kingdom Within: The Inner Meaning of Jesus' Sayings – A Psychotherapist's Guide to Consciousness and Wholeness
“The opposition are ‘puppets of an age-old and shadowy right-wing elite. They work to keep humanity enthralled. Using and abusing us, encouraging and promoting disharmony in an eternal cosmic struggle, and siphoning off our negative energies for their own nefarious purposes. Evil incarnate – and disincarnate.”
Source: The Imaginal Veil
“The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.”
Source: The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister
“The opposition between false limitless desires which only bring suffering and the authentic spiritual desire for well-being thus appears problematic: sensual desires are in themselves moderate, constrained to their direct goals; they become infinite and self-destructive only when they are infected by a spiritual dimension. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling knew that spirituality is self-destructive in its longing for infinity, which is why evil is much more spiritual than our sensual reality. In other words, the root of evil is not our egotism but, on the contrary, a perverted self-destructed spirituality which can prompt unnecessary personal self-sacrifice.”
Source: Against Progress
“The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.”
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“The opposition leaders and those in power can keep reputable the four pillars of democracy in the context of their constitutional duties, transparent justice, truth, and honesty; they can also discredit those by their wrong character and fallacious decisions and deeds.”
“The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you”
“The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays
“The opposition of white workers to the continued competition of slave labor was an important factor in ending slavery in the North.”
Source: Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619-1973
“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is often a mask, perhaps unconscious, for underlying anti-intellectualism or antiscientism.”
“The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.”
“The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
“The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.”
“The oppressed class, although the ideology of the oppressing class is imposed upon it, nevertheless elaborates religious, ethical and political ideas corresponding to its condition of life; vague and secret at first, they gain in precision and force in proportion as the oppressed class takes definite form and acquires the consciousness of its social utility and of its strength; and the hour of its emancipation is near when its conception of nature and of society opposes itself openly and boldly to that of the ruling class.”
Source: The Right To Be Lazy
“The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.”
“The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.”
“The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression.”
“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.”
“The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.”
Source: Jefferson, magnificent populist
“The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.”
Source: The Paulo Freire Reader
“The oppressed, who lives without wisdom will never be liberated.”
“The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”