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Quotes About Moribund

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
~ Jon Meacham
Its evolutionary adaptability is largely gone. Ecologically, it has become moribund. Sheer chance, among other factors, is working against it. The toilet of its destiny has been flushed.
~ David Quammen
mas manteve uma calma absoluta durante a agonia porque é uma lei tornar a morte leve aos moribundos, de acordo com as nossas próprias forças
~ Franz Kafka
It is a mistake to think of publicity supplanting the visual art of post-Renaissance Europe; it is the last moribund form of that art.
~ John Berger
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
Vespasiano's biographies were crucial, therefore, to the formation of one of history's most famous and endearing (if sometimes misleading) narratives: how the rediscovery of ancient books refreshed and "rebirthed" a disoriented and moribund civilization.
~ Ross King
For a hundred years the Ottoman Empire, called the "Sick Man" of Europe, had been considered moribund by the hovering European powers who were waiting to fall upon the carcass.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
So many of the books were faded and unreadable. After all, we're all in the same boat. Memento mori
~ George Orwell
When you write letters to me, try not to be sophomoric and moribund about your criticisms of Jean et son weltanschauung [and his worldview.] A little more finesse, please, or if possible, a dash of humor.
~ Jack Kerouac
I remember it was frowned upon. Considered frivolous, or dangerous, or unbecoming—one of those terms that the moribund use to keep the adventurous in tow.
~ Unknown
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
~ Winston Churchill
Sorry. Trigger warning: Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.
~ Mark Frost
Theology that steps back in time only to hide there from the problems to be faced in the present ends up hidebound and moribund. Or, worse, it becomes an empty scholasticism that refuses to attend to the needs of the present, accepting only what has been hallowed by time and use, as if it is sufficient to look backward without looking forward.
~ Oliver D. Crisp