T Quotes
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“The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”
Source: Race and Democratic Society
“The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”
“The behavior of people and the culture of an organization are very different in winning streaks and losing streaks. But what both have in common is their momentum - once winners' or losers' habits and culture take hold, they tend to perpetuate themselves.”
“The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level.”
“The behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called.”
“The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.”
“The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?”
Source: Haiku Master Buson
“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”
“The behavioral investor understands and seeks to mimic the best parts of passive investing - low turnover, rock bottom fees and appropriate diversification - without succumbing to absentminded buying and selling.”
Source: The Behavioral Investor: How psychology shapes wealth, risk, and investment decisions
“The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.”
Source: Behaviorism
“The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.”
“The behaviors must connect at an emotional level for people. They must be personally rewarding, not just for the organization.”
Source: Vital Behavior Blueprint: 5 Steps to Embed Mission-Critical Habits into Your Organization's DNA
“The behaviour and attitude of another person's towards you reflect their state of inner self and mindset.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The behaviour of courtesy and civility is the jewellery of your thoughts and the beauty of your expression.”
“The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.”
“The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.”
“The behaviour of the courtesy and the civility is the jewellery of your thoughts and the beauty of your expression.”
“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my trip so far had been such a bizarre success, was that Irish people were crazy. One Englishman had spent a morning on the telephone trying to organise a helicopter to take me out to an island, when a boat was leaving only a few yards away, and here was another, making a two-hour round trip for no reason other than to lend a helping hand. Two of the more eccentric pieces of behaviour hadn't been performed by the Irish, but by my fellow countrymen. However, both Andy and Tony had embraced wholeheartedly a love of the Irish way of living life.”
Source: Round Ireland with a Fridge
“The behaviour of the human nervous system in certain altered states creates the illusion of dissociation from one’s body (less commonly understood in hunting and gathering shamanistic societies as possession by spirits).”
Source: The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
“The Behemoth & The Godspawn Surfer by Stewart Stafford
Jagged flesh in the behemoth's belly,
The city encircled by its tongue's pall,
I drank toxic fumes and pumice smoke,
As I tried surfing along a lava waterfall.
My obsidian bone board, surging fire,
Cryptid blood drips from a snapping jaw,
In a flash of the beast's fungal jawline,
I counted the vacant dead within its maw.
In a blaze, I was in its mouth and deeper,
I rounded the gullet's scalding turn,
Into a sea of swirling bones, stomach bile,
Where half-chewed skyscrapers churn.
"Leave me, Godspawn!" the monster roared,
"Spoil not my prey feasting for my fangs to cut!"
My board speared into its festering heart,
It ejected me in a howling thunderclap of sulphur soot.
And hurled me skyward, sand-blasted, and bruised,
The plume cleared, and the beast stood, wound-free—
Lava floods scorched, the city’s debt — a lifeblood hue,
By sunrise, my perennial task returned to enslave me.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The behind every act of obedience there is an open door”
“The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”
Source: Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings
“The beige linoleum floor turned into the ocean, crashed and crashed against Lotto's shins. He sat down. How swiftly things spun. Two minutes ago he'd been a kid, thinking about his nintendo system, worried about asymptotes and signs. Now he was, heavy, adult.”
Source: Fates and Furies
“The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.”
“THE BEING
Being (God) is finite.
Only a finite being can exist.
That which exists must be finite.
That which does not exist is “infinite” potential.
The potential is potential existence.
That which may exist already exists in a different form.
The infinite potential is the ability of the Being always to be new.
Nothingness exists in the form of nonexistence.
Existence of nonexistence exists.
Infinity of the finite is the secret of existence.
The very finiteness of God leads to infinity.
The finiteness of God is absolute.
(The Finiteness of God is Zero.)
The finitude of God hides infinity (potential).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.”
“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“The Being is finite and infinite. It is finite while contained within itself. When it is within itself as One, it becomes its opposite—the Nonbeing.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The being is the bridge.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“The Being is The Bridge (The Sonnet)
I came to life at Dakshineswar,
At Kapadokya I got my sight.
I found my might at Shaolin,
At Liberty Island I came to light.
In Pernik I bathed in love,
By the Volga I tasted sapience.
Lika taught me the role of innovation,
Sudbury gave me the sail of science.
Streets of Calcutta showed me suffering,
Streets of Chicago reminded, I'm the answer.
It's not the place but people who hold magic,
Revolution rose when all of them came together.
You won't know me as the father of a nation.
You'll know me as the maker of amalgamation.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not limited by words -- nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified.”
“The being of any group from the point of view of the group members themselves is very curious. If I think of you and him as together with me, and others again as not with me, I have already formed two rudimentary syntheses, namely, We and Them. However, this private act of synthesis is not in itself a group. In order that We come into being as a group, it is necessary not only that I regard, let us say, you and him and me as We, but that you and he also think of us as We. I shall call such an act of experiencing a number of persons as a single collectivity, an act of rudimentary group synthesis.”
“The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.”
Source: Sodom and Gomorrah
“The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.”
“The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.”
“The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.”
“The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.”
Source: The best of Bagehot
“The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.”
“The Belgian period was the beginning of the most successful era in the history of the Congo. It was the only period in which it had an effective police force and army. The country was being run orderly, was relatively incorrupt and capable of maintaining internal order and of protecting its sovereignty. Only then, under the Belgians, was that the case.”
“The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK.”
“The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.”
“The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.”
“The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.”
Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.”
Source: James Madison's
“The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.”
Source: In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years
“The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.”
“The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.”