Cultural Relics Quotes & Sayings

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes. — Baron De Montesquieu

You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough. — Elmer Rice

I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace. — Jayne Mansfield

Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. — Marc Maron

The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the phenomenon labelled the 'rebirth of antiquity' in the language regulations of art history entered a phase that fundamentally modified the motives of our identification with cultural relics from antiquity, even from the early classical period. Here, as we have seen, one finds a regression to a time in which the changing of life had not yet fallen under the command of life-denying asceticisms. This 'supra-epochal' time could just as easily be called the future, and what seems like a regression towards it could also be conceived of as a leap forwards. — Peter Sloterdijk

... The world could change in an instant, and she needed to be mindful of where she was, to live with intention, to always recognize the deliberateness of love. — Deborah Reed

Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought. — David Mitchell

I brought gear. I thought you might be in need of clothing, but I didn't realize quite how in need. Tessa — Cassandra Clare

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. — Robert Wagner