T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.”
Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle
“The American Indian understood the purpose of life was to expand and magnify the Real Self. The purpose of life was the continuing evolution of the divine spirit within.”
Source: Earth Medicine: Revealing Hidden Teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel
“The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.”
Source: The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World
“The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969
“The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.”
“The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.”
“The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.”
“The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.”
“The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.”
“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as a holy crusade. What shall we do with leaders who tell us that we go to war in moral spotlessness or who make “democracy” synonymous with a republican form of government?”
“The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.”
“The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.”
“The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.”
“The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his dietary protein needs, 12 percent of the carbohydrates, 9 percent of essential phosphorus, 7 percent of his riboflavin, and 5 percent of niacin. Should he go on to immoderate beer drinking, he becomes a walking vitamin pill.”
Source: The Joy of Drinking
“The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.”
“The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.”
“The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.”
“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
“The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.”
“The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.”
“The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.”
“The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.”
Source: The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay
“The American Left specializes in being right and losing and the American Right specializes in being wrong and winning.”
“The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.”
“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.”
“The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.”
“The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.”
“The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.”
“The American media wants to pump you full of fear.”
“The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?”
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.”
“The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.”
“The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.”
Source: CourseSmart International E-Book for The Social Animal
“The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.”
“The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.”
Source: From a writer's notebook
“The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.”
“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.”
Source: Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections
“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.”
Source: Propaganda
“The American movement, Tea Party, whatever you want to call it, I think that is a very hopeful moment for the country and, I know, we really are the community organizers, are we not?”
“The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.”
“The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.”
“The American must stop being american, you must outgrow everything that the pilgrims held near and dear, because the pilgrims were among apekind's most grotesque offenders, second only to their own forefathers, the british empire and other euro imperials.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.”
Source: Daniel Martin
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have one user. The nearly 1 million American users of the name Mary, for example, do not constitute a unified army who might slaughter all users of the name Nancy, as was earlier supposed, but rather a saturation of the Mary Potential Quotient. Simply stated: Too many women with the same name produces widespread mediocrity and fatigue.”
Source: Notable American Women
“The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.”
“the American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent—that is ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the end of parental hegemony”
“The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.”
Source: The Victoria Woodhull Reader
“The American Nazi party and the KKK don't really exist in a meaningful way. They may have an office or website. But they are not tens of thousands of members.”
“The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X