T Quotes
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“The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.”
“The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.”
“The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering.”
Source: 道德经
“The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]”
“The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.”
“The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.”
Source: This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories
“The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence, --- not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind.”
“The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.”
“The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.”
“The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“The world is run by C students”
“The world is run by cynics and abusers, Kelly and it’s a damn shame. I don’t know if there’s anything any of us can do. Fight it? How long you think people’ve been fighting these urges? This… human nature. The best thing any of us can do is take care of ourselves. God damned the future like he damned our childhoods.”
Source: Dead End Drive
“The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.”
“The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.”
Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“The world is run by the people who show up.”
“The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.”
“The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.”
Source: Fire in the belly: on being a man
“The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.”
“The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.”
“The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.”
“The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.
[Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]”
“The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.”
“The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.”
“The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.”
“The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.”
“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
Source: Dreams of the Compass Rose
“The world is shifting from one of credentials to one of capabilities.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.”
Source: Adventures of Ideas
“The world is short on finishers. FINISH.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.”
“The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.”
“The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.”
“The world is sick and you are its cure.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.”
“The world is simple in a complex way." -Zack Merrick”
“The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.”
Source: Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“The world is simply not
anything any of us
say of it
our names are strange delusions
pulling us back
from a brink we are always
falling through—”
“The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.”
“The world is slowly, slowly moving towards love relationships; hence there is great turmoil. All the old institutions are disappearing - they have to disappear, because they were based on the I/it relationship. New ways of communication, new ways of sharing are bound to be discovered. They will have a different flavor, the flavor of love, of sharing. They will be nonpossessive; there will be no owner.”
“The world is small. Books make it bigger.”
“The world is small, but how we have so many information, so many questions how do they find space???
If I put it on the disk, some how it will reach a limit and I can't download or install on this disk, but on the planet there isn't limit. But the planet is a small!”
“The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.”
“The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra”
“The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“The world is so big, Rachel," Borne had said to me. "It just keeps going and going."
"It ends eventually." I almost said, "It gets smaller," but bit my tongue.”
Source: Borne
“The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.”
“The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.”
“The world is so different when viewed through the light of God’s Word.”
Source: Amish by Accident
“The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”