T Quotes
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“The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.”
“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The oppression and exploitation of Latinos (like Asians) have historical roots unknown to most Americans. People who learn at least a little about Black slavery remain totally ignorant about how the United States seized half of Mexico or how it has colonized Puerto Rico.”
Source: De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
“The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.”
“The oppression of a minority by a majority is no better, except numerically, than the oppression of a majority by a minority.”
“The oppression of anonymity and lack of human contact can inveigle people to reinvent themselves, rethink their lives and give hope a chance. Once they have broken down the wall of apathy and reached the wellness of concern, they can realize what it feels to be missed. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.”
“The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.”
“The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.”
“The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.)”
“The oppressor bears the weight of guilt, while the victim finds solace in pity.”
“The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.”
“The oppressor is bent on destruction. But our defender is the LORD. He shall deliver us from any harm.”
“The oppressor shows solidarity with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labour — when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The oppressor will always despise their victims.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity
“The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.”
“The optimal choice that you can make in any situation is to grow spiritually. That means intending to create harmony, sharing, cooperation and reverence for life... There is wisdom in each of your choices because each of them creates consequences that you mwill experience and if you choose, learn from.”
“The optimal strategy encompasses self-reflection/introspection, adaptability, and versatility within a fluid environment. Although one cannot exert absolute control over the behavior of others or the external work milieu, one can entirely govern one's own conduct. Cultivating humility, demonstrating respect for others, and embracing multicultural perspectives are fundamental for integrating successfully into a globalized workplace. Ultimately, the journey begins with the self.”
“The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.”
Source: Crime and Mr. Campion
“The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder.”
Source: Lord of Light
“The optimism was like the sun after a long spell of clouds and rain, a euphoric rush which produced both envy and awe in anyone who had become jaded, resigned, who had given up on their dreams.”
Source: Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
“The optimist doesn’t fear the height of the cliff. Rather, they’re looking forward to the walk across the bridge.”
“The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.”
“The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“The optimist is a pessimist with a plan”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each.”
Source: In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)
“The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.”
Source: In Tune With the Infinite: Fullness of Peace, Power and Plenty (New Thought Edition)
“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
Source: The Silver Stallion
“The optimist regards the future as uncertain.”
“The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."”
“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
“The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.”
“The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty. The chemist sees the glass completely full, half in liquid state and half in gaseous, both of which is probably poisonous.”
Source: Chemistry
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
“The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.”
“The optimist will never say that he's unemployed. But he will claim that he has full freedom to do anything he wants. He can choose whether to make money or waste his VALUABLE time.”
“The optimistic jump is a necessity because man is still created in the image of God, whatever he may say about himself, and as such he cannot go on living in meaninglessness.”
Source: The God Who Is There
“The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.”
“The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."”
“The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.”
Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life