Trojans Quotes

• Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Mother, Horse

  Letter on August 20, 1959. "Rebecca West: A Life". Book by Victoria Glendinning. Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206, 1987.

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• Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

  Virgil

  Horse, Fear, May

  Virgil (2004). “The Aeneid”, p.35, Collector's Library

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• Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who illegal migrants are, where they come from. I always say Trojan horse. Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Ideas, Migrants

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

  Coolio

  Reality, Mind, Waste

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Tyrants, Emergencies

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.

  Randy Alcorn

  Horse, Impact, Evil

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• Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

  David Stockman

  Horse, Trojan Horse, Rate

  "The Education of David Stockman" by William Greider, www.theatlantic.com. December 1981.

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Horse, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, Past, Civilization

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• I know the drill. [Republicans] say Donald Trump is not a Republican. They say he's a Trojan horse or he's unacceptable or he's uncouth or whatever they say.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Horse, Republican, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

  James A. Michener

  Horse, Children, War

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Seduction, Poor

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• The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain the history of the Trojan War is gone. The gods are abandoned. But their place is filled by powerful men or groups - sinister pressure groups whose wickedness is responsible for all the evils we suffer from - such as the Learned Elders of Zion, or the monopolists, or the capitalists, or the imperialists.

  Karl Popper

  Religious, Powerful, War

  "The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx".

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• I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Smell, America, Firsts

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.103, Penguin UK

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• If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now.

  Gerald Sinstadt

  Football, Horse, Greek

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• And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Fighting, Civilization

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• The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas that had already been used. I remember the first time I spotted Leigh Bowery and Trojan parading around in clubs: They were in their "Pakis from Outer Space" look, and the makeup was quite similar to one of my old looks, because I was quite fond of wearing blue, green, or yellow foundation, and so I was pretty dismissive of them at first.

  Boy George

  Makeup, Ideas, Yellow

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Realizing, Company, Large Companies

  "Three types of online attack (About the speaker)". TEDxBrussels Talk, www.ted.com. November 2011.

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• Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright, shining lie.

  Pat Buchanan

  Horse, Lying, Loss

  "Where the right went wrong". Book by Pat Buchanan, 2001.

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• Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Syrian Refugees, Trojan Horse

  Sixth Republican top-tier debate, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Isis, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

  John Lennon

  Horse, Sex, War

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Ideas, Unbelievable

  Source: time.com

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