Bits Quote by Arundhati Roy

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”

— Arundhati Roy

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When…

— Arundhati Roy

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds…

— Arundhati Roy

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

— Arundhati Roy

“Let the dead bury the dead, Sassenach,” he said softly. “The past is gone—the future is not come. And we are here together, you…

— Diana Gabaldon

Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

— Mike Schmidt

Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury…

— Mother Teresa

Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty…

— John Evelyn

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

— Andre Gide

“They bury their dead with their heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise…

— Jonathan Swift

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

— Bob Dylan

When time is flown, how it fled It is better neither to ask nor tell, Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton