T Quotes
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“The people's safety is the law of God.”
“The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.”
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.”
“The people, they are the ones with the real answers.”
“The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.”
Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions
“The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The People, when they start to applaud you and support, that means a lot”
“The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.”
“The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.”
“The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.”
“The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.”
“The peoples of the earth are one family.”
Source: Public Affairs Pamphlet
“The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.”
“The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.”
“The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.”
“The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.”
“The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.”
“The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!”
“The perceived failings of leaders of other neutral or occupied European countries, including France, Spain, Sweden or Norway, or of the countries that fought alongside the Nazis, have not caught the public imagination in the English-speaking world in anything like the same way.”
Source: The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths
“The perceived risk and actual risk are two different things.”
“The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.”
“The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.”
Source: The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics
“The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.”
“The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.”
“The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.”
“The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.”
Source: Chain Reaction
“The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.”
“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on what they base their profession. How much do they know about metaphysics, Christian theology, and intellectual history in relationship to their particular areas of scientific expertise? The intellectual relationship between religion and science is a two-way street. Just as one ought not to place much stock in geological views of a religious believer who has never studied geology, so one ought not to give much credence to the religious views of a scientist who has never studied intellectual history, the philosophy of religion, and theology. The highly specialized character of contemporary academic life makes it perfectly possible to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry or physics, for example, while knowing nothing about the theology of creation, metaphysical univocity, and why they matter for questions pertaining to the reality of God and the character of God's relationship to the natural world.”
Source: The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
“The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration.”
“The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.”
“The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010.”
Source: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
“The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation”
“The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.”
“The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.”
Source: What Is Philosophy?
“The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.”
Source: The collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: pragmatism and pragmaticism
“The percept takes priority of the concept.”
Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan
“The perception in the Arab world now is that we are having secularists against Islamists, and that's it. So the secularists are progressive; the Islamists are reactionary, conservative. This perception is wrong.”
“The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of IU families are opting not to go to here because they perceive the quality of IU is going down.”
“The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.”
“The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.”
“The perception of a child may irritate you, but if you are patient, it can lead you to an understanding of yourself. The world of a child is full of magic things. You should be patient with them so that your senses can grow sharper.”
Source: Broken Families: How to get rid of toxic people and live a purposeful life
“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.”
Source: The Mist
“The perception of a profound space within the heart started to unfold in my awareness. I saw that this space was non-local and seemed to be in some way connected to everything else on an inner level. This inner world of the heart was one in which the usual separations that characterize the three-dimensional world had no reality. I instinctively felt that this must be the secret key to the heart’s wisdom.”
Source: Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life
“The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.”
“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”
“The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.”