T Quotes
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“The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.”
“The skyline was a jagged silhouette against the setting sun, a collage of monetary ambition and cultural decadence.”
Source: Dying in Champoussin
“The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.”
Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard
“The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.”
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.”
Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.”
Source: Barthes: Selected Writings
“The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.”
“The skyscraper symbolizes escape from the world; villa with garden symbolizes embracing the world!”
“The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.”
“The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.”
Source: Slices
“The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.”
“The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.”
“The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.”
Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”
Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“The slang 'Educated Fool' might be discovered by the Educated Society, but it is mainly used by fools.”
“The slang 'Educated Fool' might be discovered by the Educated Society but mostly use by the Fools.”
“The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet".”
Source: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“The slap of time is stronger than the scorn of a relative”
“The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now”
Source: Merman: an autobiography
“The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The slaughter of an innocent child should be of everyone's concern.”
Source: A Shadow in the Ember
“The slaughter of dolphins and other marine mammals is no more horrible than captive dolphins performing tricks because it's not just dolphins were talking about, it's also people. Especially children [...] The effect is devastatingly the same because millions of people every year who watch and cheer this spectacle of dominance are in some way also cheering every other form of environmental ravishment. If dolphin is a reference point in our relationship with nature, then when we teach people that it's okay to abuse dolphins, we're teaching them that it's also okay to abuse the rest of nature.”
Source: To Free a Dolphin
“The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.”
Source: The Greatest Secret In The World
“The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.”
Source: The Rebel
“The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“The slave can not cut off and sustain the daily livelihood of human, the livelihood of every living creature on hand the Lord.”
“The slave cannot be made to defecate for the master.”
“The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.”
“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.”
“The slave master who gives his slave his freedom has not given him anything new. He has just given him back what he took from him.”
“The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave.”
“The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.”
Source: American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech
“The slave ship at sea reduced African captives to an existence so physically atomized as to silence all but the most elemental bodily articulation, so socially impoverished as to threaten annihilation of the self, the complete disintegration of personhood. Here their commodification built toward a crescendo that threatened never to arrive, but to leave the African captives suspended in an agony whose language no one knew.”
Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
“The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.”
“The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat.”
“The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.”
“The slave who cannot assume his revolt does not deserve pity. That slave alone is responsible for his misfortune if he deludes himself about the suspect condescension of a master’s false promise of freedom. Only struggle liberates, and we call on all our sisters of all races to rise up to regain their rights.”
Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87
“The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.”
“The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."”
Source: Old portraits and modern sketches
“The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.”
Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
“The Slavery Abolition Act was signed in the yar of 1833, I say, as I sweep around his feet. 'But nobody is answering the abolition. The kings in Nigeria form before, they were selling people into slave work. Today, people are not wearing chain on their slaves and sending them abroad but salve trading is continuing. People are still breaking the Act. I want to do something to make it stop, to make people to behave better to other people, to stop slave-trading of the mind, not just of the body.”
Source: The Girl with the Louding Voice
“The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.”
Source: Paine: Political Writings
“The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?”
Source: How to Wish
“The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.”
“The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells.”
Source: Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir
“The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society