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If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.


Mark Lloyd


#against #because #build #business #committed

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.


Gustav Mahler


#doomed #down #not perfect #perfect #perish

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.


Paracelsus


#away #because #fooling #know #our

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.


Plautus


#conduct #death #delay #fangs #grinning

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.


Sophocles


#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.


Thomas Hardy


#am #face #flesh #i #i am

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.


Virginia Woolf


#foreign #gifts #humor #perish #tongue

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.


John Woolman


#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.


Arthur Henderson


#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.


Eric Hoffer


#perishable #talent #youth