T Quotes
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“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The consequences of our foolish decisions are always made clearer when we look backward on the path we've traveled.”
Source: Like Flames in the Night
“The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.”
“The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.”
“The consequences of the 1918 armistice that became the 1919 Treaty of Versailles slammed into the last century like a hurricane making landfall at high tide, pushing ever more violent waters up the rivers of history, transforming streams into raging cataracts and covering the global landscape with an ever-rising flood. Looking back over the last hundred years and seeing the fervent desire for war and the sadistic means in which armies murdered their way to bitter victory, we have to grimly conclude that the Great War never ended.
The nightmare continued.”
Source: Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
“The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.”
“The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.”
“The consequences of treating
generations of women as economically illiterate are that women have been unable to educate their daughters about money, women have been shut out
from one of the main sources of power in capitalist societies (money), and few girls have grown up believing that finance is a career for them.”
Source: Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It
“The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not we will not travel down that hellish path blindly.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.”
“The consequences of your actions are paid by others as well. Sometimes they’ve a choice to avoid, but most of the times they’ve to suffer equally or more.”
“The consequences of your choices will always outlive the choices.”
“The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.”
“The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.”
“The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.”
“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”
Source: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v
“The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.”
“The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.”
“The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no tattoos or piercings, which is interesting to me. Why does everyone who lives in one place dress alike, look alike, eat the same thing, and decorate the same way?”
“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.”
Source: The Politics of Prudence
“The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.”
“The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.”
“The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.”
Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.”
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.”
“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.”
“The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.”
“The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.”
“The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.”
“The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'”
“The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.”
“The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.”
“The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.”
“The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.”
“The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.”
“The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.”
“The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative”
“The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.”
“The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.”
“The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.”
“The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and gain experience. We're electing somebody who's going to be our prime minister in two months' time, and that's why it's very important we have somebody with strong experience, who's good at working with the international community and can hit the ground running.”
“The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.”
“The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us and I’m personally very pleased that we plan to continue to run candidates in Northern Ireland as well.”
“The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.”
“The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.”
“The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.”