T Quotes
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“The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.”
Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses.”
Source: Planned Chaos
“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.”
“The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.”
“The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.”
“The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.”
Source: The Art of War
“The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?”
“The consumption celebrity superficially represents different types of personality and shows each of these types having equal access to the totality of consumption and finding similar happiness there. The decision celebrity must possess a complete stock of accepted human qualities. Official differences between stars are wiped out by the official similarity which is the presupposition of their excellence in everything.”
Source: The Society of the Spectacle
“The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?”
“The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.”
“The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].”
“The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.”
“The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”
“The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.”
“The contact of two epidermises.”
“The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.”
“The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.”
“The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.”
“The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.”
“The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.”
Source: Success and Its Conditions
“The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at our personal past and juxtapose ourselves and our inner being with the utterly unattainable beauty revealed to us.”
Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
“The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.”
“The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.”
“the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation”
Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.”
Source: Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on
“The contemplative clinking and methodical chewing are a little weird, but it is proof that souls are housed
inside the physical body.”
Source: Digging for God
“The contemplative is on the journey to wholeness, autonomy, freedom - the freedom to love, to care, to transfigure the earth. Ultimately contemplation is related to our vocation - to what we are to do in the world. God gives us not only an incomplete self; God gives us an incomplete world. In contemplative prayer we participate in God's nature, we are in touch with our own divinity.”
“The contemplative man always lives alone, regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.”
Source: The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
“The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.”
“The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?”
“The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.”
“The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.”
“The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“The contemporary corporate board as the top leadership team plays a directorial role in envisioning the future of the business and overseeing the corporate strategy.”
Source: Digital Boardroom: 100 Q&as
“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.”
“The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.”
“The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.”
Source: The Mysterious Mr Quin
“The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.”
“The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.”
“The contemporary motto for the mullet-wearer is "business in front, party in the back" but the Indian mullet warrior motto was "I don't want my hair to get in my eyes as I'm kicking your ass.”
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity. Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide honest representations of himself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself.
But it is preposterous to imagine that we ourselves are determinate, and hence susceptible both to correct and to incorrect descriptions, while supposing that the ascription of determinacy to anything else has been exposed as a mistake. As conscious beings, we exist only in response to other things, and we cannot know ourselves at all without knowing them. Moreover, there is nothing in theory, and certainly nothing in experience, to support the extraordinary judgment that it is the truth about himself that is the easiest for a person to know. Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial -- notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.”
Source: On Bullshit
“The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?”
Source: Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America
“The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.”
Source: Natural Right and History
“The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.”
Source: All Labor Has Dignity
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
Source: Ida: A Novel
“The contempt and loathing women are trained to feel for each other is the single most powerful strategy misogyny has in maintaining the oppression of women. Male supremacist culture replaces the natural loving solidarity between women with hate.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.”
“The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.”
“The contempt of motorists for pedestrians is so ironic, because no matter how many cars they have, they are also pedestrians, biologically. Unless they fly to the doors of their cars.”
Source: Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities