T Quotes
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“This fluctuating hierarchy, with its constant addition of new layers and shifts in authority, is well known from secret control bodies, the secret police or espionage services, where new controls are always needed to control the controllers. In the prepower stage of the movements, total espionage is not yet possible; but the fluctuating hierarchy, similar to that of secret services, makes it possible, even without actual power, to degrade any rank or group that wavers or shows signs of decreasing radicalism by the mere insertion of a new more radical layer, hence driving the older group automatically in the direction of the front organizations and away from the center of the movement. Thus, the Nazi elite formations were primarily inner-party organizations: the SA rose to the position of a superparty when the party appeared to lose in radicality and was then in turn and for similar reasons superseded by the SS.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“This focus on improving an indicator while losing sight of the original goal is what I call indicatorism.”
Source: The Quantified Society: How our obsession with performance measurement shapes the world we live in
“This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.”
“This foe is beyond any of you...RUN!”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“This fond attachment to the well-known place
Whence first we started into life's long race,
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”
“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter”
“This for God and this for myself;
This for my soul, and this other for my body?”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.”
“This Force isn’t human, and it doesn’t think or act like a human. In fact, we can’t even be sure if this Force thinks at all in the way that we understand thinking. It exists beyond what we can comprehend, and it doesn’t fit neatly into the categories and ideas we use to understand the world.”
Source: Doorway in the Swamp
“This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.”
“This [forced migration into cities] was part of the Indian Relocation Act, which was part of the Indian Termination Policy, which was and is exactly what it sounds like. Make them look and act like us. Become us. And so disappear.”
“This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.”
“This Forest eats itself and lives forever.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“This forest silence improves anyone.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.”
“This form of hereditary privilege started as a favour, soon became a custom, and finally a necessity; but it never became law.”
Source: Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
“This form of love is like the pain
of childbirth: so intense
it's hard to remember afterwards,”
Source: Morning in the Burned House: Poems
“This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“This formidable officine dates from Peter the Great, who formed it in 1697...its historic origins must, however, be looked for much earlier; one finds them in the byzantine traditions and in the operations of the Tartar domination...espionage, delation, torture, and secret executions were the normal and regulating instruments of the |||||||| police.”
“This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.”
Source: Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster
“This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.”
Source: Little Essays Toward Truth
“This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.”
“This fountain commemorates Luxembourg’s two national poets—Lentz and Dicks,’” Jeffrey reads. “That had to be a tough name to get through school with.” I scowl slightly as Jeffrey reads on. “Mr. Lentz wrote the national motto. ‘Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sin’ . . . ‘We wish to remain what we are.’” It really explains this strange place, I think, as Jeffrey considers the fountain. The gargoyles, the old men, the cobblestones. Maybe it’s trying with all its might not to change in any way. Maybe Luxembourg is stuck, just like us." (from "The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards: A Novel (Ala Notable Books for Adults)" by Kristopher Jansma)”
Source: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
“This Fourth of July, instead of celebrating your Americanness, do something to redeem your humanness. Anybody can become a super power by exploiting and abusing others - that's not greatness, it's bestiality - but to grow super without trampling on anybody, that's greatness - better yet, to grow super together with everybody, that's absolute greatness.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
“This fragrance scattered through the evening air,
Doth bear a message wrought of love’s design;
The blossoms fallen from the branches fair,
To them, the gentle twilight doth assign.”
“This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that first or second graders are expected to know. Like the common school movement, uniform indicators of quality, centralized regulation, more highly credientialed teachers are to ensure that instruction--rather than creating engaging activities for children to explore--will be delivered in more uniform ways. And the state signals to parents that this is now the appropriate way to raise one's three- or four-year-old. Modern child rearing is equated with systems building in the eyes of universal pre-kindergarten advocates--and parents hear this discourse through upbeat articles in daily newspapers, public service annoucement, and from school authorities.”
Source: Standardized Childhood: The Political and Cultural Struggle over Early Education
“This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.”
Source: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
“This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.”
Source: Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive
“This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.”
“This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other”
Source: The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)
“This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.”
Source: You learn by living
“This “freedom” put a proud people in chains
And turned free men into slaves
“Independence” made us weak
And slaughtered us
In the name of kindness
This is democracy by the whip
And the fear of chains
With a whirlwind at its core”
Source: My Life with the Taliban
“This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.”
Source: Collected Poems
“This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I think those fears also reflect a failure to communicate. Parents should be able to say to their kids: "There is stuff out there that we don't look at, and if you find yourself looking at it or someone approaching you about it, then let's talk about it."”
“This friend of mine had a terrible upbringing. When his mother lifted him up to feed him, his father rented the pram out. Then, when they came into money later, his mother hired a woman to push the pram - and he's been pushed for money ever since.”
“This Fruity Pebble that ya dealin' with, I ain't ya average jabroni. I'm like a big purple pinwheel, Rock, so go ahead and blow me.”
“This fucking city is full of nothing but thugs, money grubbing porn-bitches, and hustlers. I’m calling the police.” Ex fumed as he struggled to pull his cell from his pocket.
If Syn weren't so damn angry it would’ve been funny as shit the way the man’s jaw dropped when God and Day both pulled their gold badges out from under their shirts. Day smiled that sinister grin and kneeled in front of them, speaking in an official tone, “911, what is your emergency?”
“This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.”
“This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of "complexification."”
“This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.”
Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
“This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.”
“This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like you have to become a different person overnight, that growing up means being not you. And you concentrate so hard on living up to the term "adult" that you forget growing up happens by living, not by sheer force of will.”
Source: Finding It
“This further consolation yet secure
I carry hence; though all by mee is lost,
Such favour I unworthie am voutsaft,
By mee the Promis'd Seed shall all restore.”
“This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.”
“This gallery is not a space—it’s a conversation between souls across time.”
“This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.”
“This game could last for days if I keep going unconscious."
"Or it could be over very quickly."
Lev takes a deep breath and tries not to show any more fear than he has to. "Sounds exciting. I'm in.”
Source: UnWholly