Mean Quote by Honore de Balzac

Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

— Manuel Neuer

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of…

— William Hazlitt

“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires an opposing…

— Jack Donovan

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but…

— Pericles

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

— C. Wright Mills

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

— V. S. Pritchett

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

— Rob Huebel

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the…

— James A. Garfield

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

“But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.”

— Alasdair Gray

Structure builds minds into great Monuments.

— Robert M. Hensel