Quotes About Demise

Human nature is an odd thing, is it not?" he asked softly. "Always tempting man to his demise.

With the demise of the inward-looking, stodgy yeomen, enormous wealth and poverty ensued. The Greek-speaking Hellenistic world could now use the Hellenic genius without ethical constraint.

Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Poetry is history to be protected, lessons to be learned, a path to change our society or prevent its demise.

In death we're all equal.

Death is the last thing you will ever do.

Death makes everybody's I.Q. the same.

Dead people are all on the same level.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

And death makes equal the high and low.

Death cancels all engagements.

And last of all comes death.

Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.

UNDERSTANDING the destruction of slavery in the United States not as a single climactic event but as a long process that stretched across a near-century provides a useful and perhaps fuller appreciation of the reality of emancipation. Freedom's arrival was not the work of a moment but the product of movement; it was a process, rather than an occasion.12 Taking the long view of slavery's demise

Death does not discriminate. It is so even handed, so scrupulously fair, that it seems not fair at all. - Eeron Kleve, Iron Hand's Captain

When you die, you die. And everything is over.

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Death did not frighten her. In those years she had tended the dying, witnessed their demise, and laid out the dead. Death by sickness. Death in childbirth. Death by accident. Death by malice, once or twice. Death as the welcome visitor to great age.

This suggests that there would be little plausibility to a suggestion to the effect that the remit of the philosophical man of letters, as understood by Hume, was to work towards the demise of the Christian religion.

Thomas Edison hailed him as the "genius of the modern age"; Gandhi, as a "superman." Winston Churchill pledged to stand by him in his "struggle against the bestial appetites of Leninism." Newspapers in Rome, host to the Vatican, referred to him as "the incarnation of God." In the end, people who had worshipped [Benito Mussolini's] every move hung his corpse upside down next to his mistress's near a gas station in Milan.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

But twentieth-century science was also marked by the demise of the reductionist dream. In spite of its great successes explaining the very large and very small, fundamental physics, and more generally, scientific reductionism, have been notably mute in explaining the complex phenomena closest to our human-scale concerns.