Perished Quotes
82 quotes by 76 authors
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make…
— Honore de Balzac
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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
— Bertrand Russell
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Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja…
— Jeff Cooper
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a…
— Carl Jung
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But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health…
— John F. Kerry
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The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed…
— Cassius Dio
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Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .
— Horace Mann
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The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always…
— Winston Churchill
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In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as…
— Athanasius of Alexandria
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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that…
— Francis Galton
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility…
— James T. Walsh
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following…
— William Wordsworth
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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
— William Wordsworth
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All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
— Mark Twain
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