T Quotes
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“There can be no censorship better than one's own conscience.”
“There can be no centre
in infinity.”
“There can be no Christianity where there is no charity”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.”
“There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.”
Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
“There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.”
“There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“There can be no compromise on moral principles.”
Source: The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.”
“There can be no compromise with war.”
“There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.”
“There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.”
“There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)
“There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.”
“There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.”
Source: A Defence for Fugitive Slaves
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
“There can be no darkness where I provide the light.”
Source: A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections
“There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.”
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
“There can be no democracy in a country where people are uneducated and do not understand their own position in the society and the world. People 'rule' only if they can make 'educated decisions'. Democracy means 'rule of the people'.”
“There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.”
“There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.”
Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings
“There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.”
“There can be no discredit to a conquered people for accepting the conditions offered by their conquerors. Nor is there any occasion for a feeling of humiliation. We have made an honest, and I hope that I may say, a creditable fight, but we have lost. Let us come forward, then, and accept the ends involved in the struggle....Let us accept the terms, as we are in duty bound to do. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to New Orleans Times, March 18, 1867.”
Source: Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
Source: David Copperfield
“There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
“There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.”
“There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.”
“There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements.”
Source: The river of the mother of God and other essays
“There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.”
“There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.”
“There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?”
“There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.”
“There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.”
“There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”
“There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.”
“There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.”
“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.”
Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.”
“There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.”
“There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolution, is a certain basic passivity. When provoked by challenges, human beings are magnificent. When life is quiet and even, we take the path of least resistance, and then wonder why we feel bored. A man who is determined and active doesn't pay much attention to 'luck'. If things go badly, he takes a deep breath and redoubles his effort. And he quickly discovers that his moments of deepest happiness often come after such efforts. The man who has become accustomed to a passive existence becomes preoccupied with 'luck'; it may become an obsession. When things go well, he is delighted and good humored; when they go badly, he becomes gloomy and petulant. He is unhappy—or dissatisfied—most of the time, for even when he has no cause for complaint, he feels that gratitude would be premature; things might go wrong at any moment; you can't really trust the world... Gambling is one basic response to this passivity, revealing the obsession with luck, the desire to make things happen.
The absurdity about this attitude is that we fail to recognize the active part we play in making life a pleasure. When my will is active, my whole mental and physical being works better, just as my digestion works better if I take exercise between meals. I gain an increasing feeling of control over my life, instead of the feeling of helplessness (what Sartre calls 'contingency') that comes from long periods of passivity. Yet even people who are intelligent enough to recognize this find the habit of passivity so deeply ingrained that they find themselves holding their breath when things go well, hoping fate will continue to be kind.”
Source: Strange Powers
“There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.”
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary species, which have succeeded one another, by the slow and gradual substitution of species for species, in the vast interval of time which has elapsed between the deposition of the earliest fossiliferous strata and the present day.”
Source: Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The
“There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.”
Source: Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
“There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.”