T Quotes
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“To call someone mad is an easy way of dismissing them. The minute you say someone is crazy, they stop being human.”
Source: Faithfull
“To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.”
“To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.”
Source: The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century
“To call the belief in substantial human equality a superstition is to insult superstition. It might be unwarranted to believe in leprechauns, but at least the person who holds to such a belief isn’t watching them not exist, for every waking hour of the day. Human inequality, in contrast, and in all of its abundant multiplicity, is constantly on display, as people exhibit their variations in gender, ethnicity, physical attractiveness, size and shape, strength, health, agility, charm, humor, wit, industriousness, and sociability, among countless other features, traits, abilities, and aspects of their personality, some immediately and conspicuously, some only slowly, over time. To absorb even the slightest fraction of all this and to conclude, in the only way possible, that it is either nothing at all, or a ‘social construct’ and index of oppression, is sheer Gnostic delirium: a commitment beyond all evidence to the existence of a true and good world veiled by appearances. People are not equal, they do not develop equally, their goals and achievements are not equal, and nothing can make them equal. Substantial equality has no relation to reality, except as its systematic negation. Violence on a genocidal scale is required to even approximate to a practical egalitarian program, and if anything less ambitious is attempted, people get around it (some more competently than others).”
Source: The Dark Enlightenment
“To call the place an anthill would be like calling the Versailles Palace a single-family home. Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees--a hundred feet at least. The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome. A steady stream of soldiers and drones swarmed in and out of the mound. Some carried fallen trees. One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.”
“To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.”
Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer
“To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best.”
“To call things in the past inexorable makes more things in the future inexorable. To tell people they're not to blame for past mistakes is to make future mistakes more likely. The truth is hardly guaranteed to set us free.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?”
Source: Young India
“To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.”
“To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.”
“To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.”
Source: A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm
“To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.”
“To call yourself a “realistic” person is intensely arrogant and naïve.”
“To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.”
“To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.”
Source: Mary Ware: The Little Colonel's Chum
“To calm my jangled nerves, I rose early and went for a long jog along the Kamo River. As often happens during such times, the world came into stark relief. As I ran up the embankment, details popped, such as the nickel-blue river, topaz marsh grass, and leafless trees that looked almost silk-screened onto a paper panorama of Kyoto.
Flushed with endorphins, I dashed back to the Guesthouse feeling much calmer about meeting with the Grand Tea Master. By 8:00, I was down in the den drinking coffee and breakfasting on persimmon toast. Persimmons had recently come into season and, when sweet and jelly-soft, made a luscious topping for crisp buttered whole wheat bread.”
Source: Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto
“To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amusing?" Amelia toyed with a button on his coat. "I was just thinking . . . tonight those two old hens will probably go to their beds, cold and alone." An impish grin curved her lips. "Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.”
“To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.”
“To can't be found as a killer or even caugh... you should be clever - books can teach that.”
“To ‘cancel’ someone is a manifestation of our inability to defend our position, which is compounded by the fear that the one that we’re ‘cancelling’ can actually defend theirs.”
“To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.”
“To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.”
“To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.”
“To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.”
Source: The Art of War
“To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.”
“To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.”
Source: The Perseids and Other Stories
“To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.”
“To care deeply about a State that does not care about you is a tragedy.
A tragedy I have come to embrace.”
“To care for another in the midst of one’s own suffering is no longer mere help—it is love made visible.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“To care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.”
“To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.”
“To care for others is a burden, but you have shouldered it better than I dared to hope... [spoiler].
I am proud to call you daughter, Freya-Born-in-Fire, for you have honored my blood.”
Source: A Curse Carved in Bone
“To care for others is called humanity.”
“To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.”
“To care for the fate of the 1.6 million other species of animals that inhabit this planet is neither unrealistic nor misguided, because most of the time there is no need to choose between the well-being of humans and the well-being of animals. We live in an essentially interdependent world where the fate of each being, of whatever kind, is intimately linked to that of all the others. So what we are suggesting here is not concern for animals only but concern for animals also.”
Source: A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
“To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have”
“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
Source: Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood
“To care for things when others don't care, that's what makes you human.”
Source: Adam Gottbetter investigates the validity of focus group method
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
“To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means to take away the many barriers which prevent us from entering into communion with the other. When we dare to care, then we discover that nothing human is foreign to us, but that all the hatred and love, cruelty and compassion, fear and joy can be found in our own hearts. When we dare to care, we have to confess that when others kill, I could have killed too. When others torture, I could have done the same. When others heal, I could have healed too. And when others give life, I could have done the same. Then we experience that we can be present to the soldier who kills, to the guard who pesters, to the young man who plays as if life has no end, and to the old man who stopped playing out of fear for death.
By the honest recognition and confession of our human sameness, we can participate in the care of God who came, not to the powerful but powerless, not to be different but the same, not to take our pain away but to share it. Through this participation we can open our hearts to each other and form a new community.”
Source: Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.”