Trojan Horse Quotes:

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

- David Stockman

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

topic: Horse, Trojans, Trojan Horse

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

- Rebecca West

topic: Mother, Horse, Humorous, Trojans, Trojan Horse

Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

- Virgil

topic: Trust, Horse, Fear, Trojans, Trojan Horse

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

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

topic: Country, Horse, Men, Collectivism, Demagoguery

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

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

topic: Country, Horse, Spring, Mercenary, Trojans

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

- Virgil

source: 'Aeneid' bk. 2, l. 48

topic: Fear, Philosophical, Giving, Trojan Horse

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

source: Source: time.com

topic: Horse, Ideas, Trojans, Trojan Horse

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

- Thomas Bulfinch

source: Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.6, The Floating Press

topic: Horse, Chivalry, Trojan Horse

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

- John Mayer

source: Esquire Magazine, November 1, 2004.

topic: Song, Horse, Past, Trojans, Trojan Horse

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

topic: Horse, Impact, Evil, Trojans, Trojan Horse

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

- Gerald Sinstadt

topic: Horse, Greek, Trojans, Trojan Horse

People are coming into America like we have no idea who they are, where they are from, what their feelings about our country is, and Hillary Clinton wants 550 percent more. This is going to be the great Trojan horse of all time.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Country, Horse, Ideas, Trojans, Trojan Horse

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

topic: Birthday, Gratitude, Horse, Swedish, Spanish Proverb

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

topic: Horse, War, Middle Management, Trojans, Trojan Horse

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

- Barack Obama

topic: Islam, Important, Problem, Extremism, Promoting

They [the establishment] will allow radical Islamic terrorists to enter our country by the thousands.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Country, Islamic, Establishment, Trojans, Trojan Horse

Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

- Jane Jacobs

topic: Horse, Islands, Airports, Trojans, Trojan Horse

In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.preaching.com

topic: Fashion, Horse, People, Modern Culture, Trojans

Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

- Dave Barry

topic: Funny, Horse, Humor, Trojans, Trojan Horse

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Horse, Used, Trojans, Trojan Horse, Colonial Times

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

- Donald Trump

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

topic: Horse, Syrian Refugees, Trojans, Trojan Horse

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

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

topic: Horse, Lying, Loss, Serials, Trojans

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

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Horse, Sex, War, Trojans, Trojan Horse

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

source: "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1957.

topic: Horse, Race, Trojans, Trojan Horse

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, America, Islam, Cairo, Trojan Horse

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon...

- John A. Keel

source: John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

topic: Age, Variation, Ufo, Trojan Horse

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

- Barack Obama

topic: Responsibility, Fighting, Religion, Cairo, Trojan Horse

My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.

- Andrew Niccol

source: "Director Andrew Niccol IN TIME Interview; Talks About Adapting Stephenie Myer’s THE HOST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. October 25, 2011.

topic: Horse, Ideas, People, Trojans, Trojan Horse

We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Appreciation, Islamic, Islamic Faith, Trojan Horse

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

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Horse, Isis, May, Trojans, Trojan Horse

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

- Barack Obama

topic: Religious, Tolerance, Islam, Trojan Horse, Racial Equality

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

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Horse, Republican, Trump, Uncouth, Trojans

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality

- Barack Obama

topic: Diversity, Islam, Ramadan, Muslim Faith, Trojan Horse