#ancient

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#ancient #battle #blood #contest #go

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme. ↗

— John Carpenter

#ancient #evil #hiding #theme #us

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock. ↗

— Toba Beta

#technological-shock #experience

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#apparently #bearing #burden #coming #custody

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

#before #between #breeze #bride #call

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#always #ancient #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancient #any #caste #child #i

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#destroy #dictum #drive #first #him

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential