T Quotes
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“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if a ‘liberal’ state is at war with a ‘totalitarian’ state, then the war is justified. The beneficent nature of a government was assumed to give rightness to the wars it wages.
...Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were liberals, which gave credence to their words exalting the two world wars, just as the liberalism of Truman made going into Korea more acceptable and the idealism of Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society gave an early glow of righteousness to the war in Vietnam.
What the experience of Athens suggests is that a nation may be relatively liberal at home and yet totally ruthless abroad. Indeed, it may more easily enlist its population in cruelty to others by pointing to the advantages at home. An entire nation is made into mercenaries, being paid with a bit of democracy at home for participating in the destruction of life abroad.”
Source: Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology
“The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.”
Source: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right
“The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'”
“The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.”
“The argument went on and on, and they became locked in a confused rhetorical exchange that left them exhausted, each accusing the other of being more stubborn than a mule. But in the end they kissed each other good night and both were left with the feeling that the other was an extraordinary human being.”
Source: The House of the Spirits
“The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America.”
Source: Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.”
“The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway, like airports and roads, and in this case it happens much faster. So speaking of a roadmap, without being specific, I would still go for Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East - that's what our clients are really interested in.”
“The arguments today will be a memory tomorrow, but our work will stand the test of time when we trust ourselves enough to act our inner compass.”
“The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.”
“The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.”
Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution
“The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.”
“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”
“The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in producing] a long habit of submission... [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.”
“The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.”
Source: Life without prejudice, and other essays
“The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.”
“The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop.”
Source: Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization
“The arithmetic of love defied intuition: only when given away did it multiply.”
Source: Plain Language
“The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.”
Source: Thoughts
“The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.”
“The Ark of the Covenant is a Golden Rectangle because its rectangular shape is in the proportions of the Golden Ratio.”
Source: Hieroglyphs and Arithmetic of the Ancient Egyptian Scribes: Version 1
“The Ark was build to hold the humility of Gods favors and the flood took place to wash away His anger”
“The arm of God is never too short to save us.”
“The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.”
“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.”
Source: Afternoon Raag
“The armed struggle is not ending just now. We are upholding a ceasefire. We have our arms with us.”
“The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.”
“The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.”
“The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.”
“The Armenian king was neither a fool nor a philistine; he wrote histories and intricate speeches. For years he had shrewdly played Parthia and Rome off against each other. True to tenacious form, he approached but would neither sink to his knees before her nor acknowledge her rank. Instead he addressed her by name. All coercion was futile; though treated harshly, no member of the Armenian royal family would prostate himself before the queen of Egypt.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.”
Source: Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914
“The Armenians will willingly harbor
revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.”
“The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.”
Source: West-running Brook
“The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations.”
“The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.”
“The Armless Tics by Stewart Stafford
Never again, the blustering brass said,
Inked in blood, my generation dead,
Human meat carved with lunatic aplomb,
No cowering allowed from gun or bomb.
Lice, rats, and mud—war zeal’s reality.
Trench foot and poisoned-gas lethality,
Churned hellscape, where no man can be,
Scribbling letters home to preserve sanity.
The artillery’s heartbeat, now silent, aghast,
Shells raining on future, present, and past,
On a last keepsake bullet, I etched “11-11”,
Through influenza, faint prayers to Heaven.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The armor of indifference in which he protected his marriage was frail... the newspaper rustling with each heave of his chest, tears running down into his ears.”
Source: The Shipping News
“The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.”
Source: Poems
“The armored infantry was Santa Claus, the battle was out Christmas. What else for the elves to do on Christmas Eve but to let their hair down and drink a a little eggnog.”
Source: All You Need Is Kill 2
“The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda said, "Gum?"
"You chew gum?"
"No. but I always carry it, to use as barter when visiting prisons."
"Do you see how I'm not asking you?"
"Smart.”
Source: The Midnight Mayor
“The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.”
Source: A Room with a View
“The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.”
“The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.”
Source: Henry IV
“The arms of a trusted and safe person are the best gift for the full development of any person.”
“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”