Erected Quotes

92 Erected quotes by 78 unique authors

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and… — John Owen
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy… — Edvard Grieg
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. — Philip Sidney
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the… — Jared Diamond
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down,… — Andres Segovia
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be… — Peter Medawar
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes… — John Dryden
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are… — Walter Benjamin
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. — Edgar Lee Masters
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development… — Barbara Tuchman
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies. — Unknown Author
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in… — Thomas Jefferson
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to… — Patrick Henry
There are no statues erected to critics. — Tim Ferriss
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches… — John Milton
Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the… — Derek Prince
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and… — Don DeLillo
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that… — James MacGregor Burns
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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