T Quotes
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“The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.”
“The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.”
“The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.”
Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.”
“The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.”
“The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.”
“The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and insist that criminals must be punished. It happens in all countries, there is a time when the army assumes the duty of internal security.”
“The soldiers fight the physical battle while the priests engage in the spiritual one. The former gives us the freedom to reside in the world and the latter seeks salvation or personal gain.”
“The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.”
“The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.”
Source: Mornings in Jenin
“The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first... you are halling ass my friends.”
“The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.”
“The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.”
“The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.”
“The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.”
Source: The Amateur Army
“The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.”
“The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“The sole aim of journalism should be service.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.”
Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre
“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”
“The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus could provide an explanation of gravity, if one ever managed to find an underlying theory for which perturbative string theory is the perturbative expansion.”
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.”
“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
“The sole cause of their tragic sufferings was their obvious and complete contempt of the pursuits of immortal men which my teaching had instilled in them. It is hardly surprising if we are driven by the blasts of storms when our chief aim on this sea of life is to displease wicked men. And though their numbers are great, we can afford to despise them because they have no one to lead them and are carried along only by ignorance which distracts them at random first one way then another. When their forces are in superior numbers, our general conducts a tactical withdrawal of his forces to a strong point, and they are left to encumber themselves with useless plunder. Safe from their furious activity or our ramparts above, we can smile at their efforts to collect all the most useless booty: our citadel cannot fall to the assaults of folly”
Source: The Consolation of Philosophy
“The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.”
“The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.”
Source: Memory and intellectual improvement applied to self-education and juvenile instruction ... Twenty-fifth edition, improved
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.”
Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
“The sole duty of the Saviour is to save people from their sins.”
“The sole equality on earth is death.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.”
“The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say.”
“The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.”
Source: The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover
“The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.”
Source: What Is Man? And Other Essays
“The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.”
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.”
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
Source: The Kingdom of God is Within You
“The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.”
“The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.”
“The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.”
“The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.”
Source: An Introduction to Philosophy
“The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.”
“The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.”
“the sole purpose for wrists is to break them”
“The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.”
“The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.”
“The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.”