Edifice Quotes

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POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of… — Ambrose Bierce
Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with… — St. Vincent
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at… — Jacques Monod
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is… — Brander Matthews
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which… — Swami Vivekananda
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation… — Rudolf Bahro
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing… — Pope Francis
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they… — John Cassian
When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;… — John of Kronstadt
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in… — Swami Vivekananda
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the… — Angela Davis
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist… — Angela Davis
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and… — Isaac Mayer Wise
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different… — Hu Shih
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients… — Atul Gawande
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce
Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so… — Margaret Thatcher

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