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Dead Quotes by Thomas Paine
- It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious…
- The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for…
- Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
- To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like…
- To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision,…
- But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon