Atheism Quote by John Paul Stevens

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

— Claes Oldenburg

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

— Reinhard Bonnke

I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

— Paul Harvey

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

— Roger Zelazny

“The primitive mind finds it hard to realize an idea without the aid of imagination, and it is the realm of space where imagination…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

— Bill Russell

“For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no…

— Kai Meyer

“In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.”

— Frank Viola

“To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments,…

— Roland Barthes

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

— Ridley Scott

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

— Lew Wallace