T Quotes
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“The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.”
“The commonalities that we find at all of the above locations include: 1) works in stone beyond the scale and technical prowess of the historically presumed builders, such as the Inca; 2) signs of construction interruptions and/or cataclysmic damage; and 3) oral traditions speaking of much earlier civilizations with advanced technological capabilities.”
Source: Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
“The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.”
“The commonality of who we are is not what we believe, but how we love.”
“The commonality that connects most great leaders is the impact and effect they have on changing lives.”
“The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.”
“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But telling is not teaching. The expression of facts that are in one's mind is a natural impulse when one wishes others to know these facts, just as to cuddle and pat a sick child is a natural impulse. But telling a fact to a child may not cure his ignorance of it any more than patting him will cure his scarlet fever. (p. 61)”
Source: Education, a First Book
“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
“The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.”
“The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.”
Source: The Nature of Natural History
“The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.”
Source: Antæus
“The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.”
Source: Four Novels of George Eliot
“The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.”
Source: The Star Beast
“The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.”
“The commonplace miracle:
that so many common miracles take place.”
Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics”
“The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
“The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.”
“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?”
“The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.”
“The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.”
“The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;
Their over-greedy love has surfeited.
An habitation giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.”
Source: Henry IV, Part Two
“The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity”
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
Source: Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar
“The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.”
“The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.”
Source: The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John
“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”
Source: Correspondence
“The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up.”
“The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there was no need for them to set up other structures to deal with the land issues.”
“The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.”
“The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic role in society; their mythmaking voices speak to us from the underworld after their passage to the other side. Writers place themselves in a trance-like state where their unconscious mind dictates to them what to write.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“The communication has evolved to such a degree that kids under 25 can connect to each other so quickly and so immediately that they really don't have the patience or understanding for inherited rhetoric.”
“The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .”
Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V 5: the History Focus
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual level: beyond that, a vast transformation must occur”
Source: Expanded cinema
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”
“The communications, water, sewer and electrical utility systems stopped working after hurricane Ian made landfall.”
“The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.”
“The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.”
“The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.”
“The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
“The communism of the ruling caste of his best city can thus be derived from Plato’s fundamental sociological law of change; it is a necessary condition of the political stability which is its fundamental characteristic. But although an important condition, it is not a sufficient one. In order that the ruling class may feel really united, that it should feel like one tribe, i.e. like one big family, pressure from without the class is as necessary as are the ties between the members of the class. This pressure can be secured by emphasizing and widening the gulf between the rulers and the ruled. The stronger the feeling that the ruled are a different and an altogether inferior race, the stronger will be the sense of unity among the rulers. We arrive in this way at the fundamental principle, announced only after some hesitation, that there must be no mingling between the classes.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
“The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.”
Source: Selected speeches
“The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.”
“The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.”