Quotes About Lost Cause

The romantic glorification of the Army of Northern Virginia by generations of Lost Cause writers has obscured this truth.

I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause.

Perseu, È›inând în mân? capul Meduzei È™i având la picioare trupul ei contorsionat, este îns??i imaginea tristeÈ›ii È™i m-a f?cut s? m? gândesc la acel vers mistic al lui Oscar Wilde:"C?ci orice om ucide ceea ce iubeÈ™te". În lupta tainei externe dintre bine È™i r?u, cauza lui era pierdut?.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For

I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I've been here in Richmond for six years and I still don't get it. To me, having the principal Richmond monuments dedicated to the Lost Cause is like saying we're dedicated to no hope, no future. It's like having a monument to unrequited love.

He does, but it turns out it was his brother who did the slaying," said Boar. "But that one's a lost cause, your great and powerful lordship. And the Dragonslayer has been utterly disgraced. Neither one is the hero you're looking for.

How good it must feel to stand for something. To commit oneself to a lost cause. To gather with other like-minded souls and lock arms and sing songs under the stars. Wallowing in futility. Championing it, actually. How wonderful it must be to fight only losing battles. How safe and how comfortable. To posit yourself squarely on the side of peace and good. How brave the sand on an eroding beach.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.

It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.

And suddenly he knew that this was not, as he had been saying to himself, simply an unlucky day. It was a day dedicated beforehand to a lost cause.