Inspirational Quote by Jean Drapeau

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb,…

— Steven Johnson

I believe the masses everywhere want peace.

— Isaac Herzog

The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in…

— Malcolm X

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

— William Hazlitt

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

— Honore de Balzac

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are…

— Vicente Fox

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

— Evangelos Venizelos

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to…

— Samuel Johnson

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

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

— Hilton Als