#perish

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#idleness #perish #remove #soon #world

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#culture #madness #perishing #quantity #words

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#always #brought #came #condition #down

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. ↗

— Walter Scott

#ask #cannot #cease #did #each

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? ↗

— Elizabeth II

#counsel #found #greater #house #imperishable

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#been #cambodia #camps #chinese #millions

We shall perish by guile just as we slew. ↗

— Aeschylus

#perish #shall #slew

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#ninth #pass #perish #remain #symphony

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#other #our #own #pain #perish

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#femininity #free #know #longer #manhood