#relic

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#blindly #bragging #cleaner #derelict #duty

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becoming #class #great #great achievements #history

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living. ↗

— William Nicholson

#after #among #another #because #business

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#corsets #drawer #favourite #film #i

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. ↗

— Iris Chang

#hang #history #onto #relics #very

Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again? ↗

— James Hogg

#james #jocobite-relics #love #love

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#divine #relics #something #treasured

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#cannot #eternal #heart #human #human heart

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#dead #living #precious #relic #valued

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. ↗

— Marc Maron

#induced #morality #relics #surveillance