Perish Quotes

421 Perish quotes by 322 unique authors

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we… — Alan Moore
I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision,… — Rosa Parks
Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle… — Winston Churchill
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. — Winston Churchill
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish. — Homer
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself. — Albert Einstein
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the… — John Arbuthnot
According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due… — John Herschel
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in… — C.S. Lewis
I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole… — Robert Anton Wilson
Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish. — Carl Rogers
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party… — Leon Trotsky
If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ,… — Christopher Love
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail… — G. Stanley Hall
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are… — Mabel Collins
All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm... The next world war will… — Friedrich Engels
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into… — Aeschylus
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. — Euripides
The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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