Monuments Quotes

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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who… — Joshua Chamberlain
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… — Thomas Jefferson
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will… — Gerald Durrell
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments. — Jean-Andre Deluc
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the… — Chiara Lubich
The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep… — Leo Tolstoy
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the… — Alistair Begg
In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection… — Charles Lyell
To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life… — Robert M. Edsel
As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada,… — David Elazar
No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well… — Wallace Stegner

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