T Quotes
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“To deify my agony in full form, I idolized my writing in all form”
“To delay is injustice.”
“To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people.”
Source: The War on the West
“To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea!”
Source: The Beggar's Prophecy
“To delete the mistakes of the past you just need to create.”
“To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.”
“To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.”
“To delight in God is to desire Jesus Christ.”
“To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.”
“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“To delight is to desire.”
“To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.”
“To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.”
Source: The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
“To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.”
“To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“To demand adherence to a lie is to birth obedience to insanity.”
“To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“To demand of your opponent what you are not willing to demand of yourself evidences the cowardice of both your character and your cause.”
“To demand or preach mechanical precision, even in principle, in a field incapable of it, is to be blind and to mislead others," as the British liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin noted in an essay on political judgement. Indeed what Berlin says of political judgement applies more broadly: judgement is a sort of skill at grasping the unique particularities of a situation, and it entails a talent for synthesis rather than analysis, "a capacity for taking in the total pattern of a human situation, of the way in which things hang together." A feel for the whole and a sense for the unique are precisely what numerical metrics cannot supply.”
Source: The Tyranny of Metrics
“To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.”
Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
“To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.”
Source: To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
“To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.”
“To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.”
“To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.”
“To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.”
Source: The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
“To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.”
Source: Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology
“To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.”
Source: The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
“To demonstrate is to show clearly & deliberately, and to describe is to give a detailed account in words.
That thing called 'Love' is defined when demonstrated, not when described.”
Source: If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
“To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.”
“To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.”
“To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.”
“To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.”
“To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.”
“To deny a person his peace is to approve your sin”
“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.”
Source: Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
“To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.”
“To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.”
“To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake.
And I do not make mistakes.”
Source: Thunderhead
“To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.”
“To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.”
“To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.”
“To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'”
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.”
Source: Walking on Water: A Novel
“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.”
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”
“To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.”
“To deny temporal succession, to deny the self, to deny the astronomical universe, are measures of apparent despair and of secret consolation. Our destiny (in contrast to Swedenborg's hell and the hell of Tibetan mythology) is not frightful because it is unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and ironbound. Time is the substance of which I am made. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which mangles me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.”
Source: A Personal Anthology
“To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.”
Source: A Dark Time in America
“To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.”