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Quotes About Edifice

Extreme inequality fractures communities, and after a while the cracks gape so wide the whole edifice comes tumbling down.
~ Zadie Smith
massive edifice, with its impenetrable walls, its monumental gate, and its red-coated guards, I began to have doubts. "What
~ Diana Gabaldon
buildings; clearly the intention was to nudge
~ Diana Gabaldon
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?
~ Seth Shostak
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
~ Abdoulaye Wade
Yet since 1917 the Soviet Union had created an edifice of self-deceit unrivalled in human history.
~ Max Hastings