Relics Quotes

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  Victor Hugo

  Love You, Heart, Trying

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• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Gold, Standards, Gold Standard

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Views

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

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• Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

  Stephen King

  Stories, World

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

  Sarah Vowell

  Divine, Treasured

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Height, Failing

  "The Beautiful And Damned".

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• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Death, Dying

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

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• I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

  George Hamilton

  Eras, Kind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

  Heinrich Schliemann

  Past, Digging, Imagine

  Leo Deuel, Heinrich Schliemann (1977). “Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: a documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

  Henry Waxman

  Memorial, Modern, Ifs

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• Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid

  Charles Lamb

  Sleep, Names, Shade

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• Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  Marc Maron

  Motherhood, Surveillance, Morality

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• We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Adventure, Journey

  Henry David Thoreau (1863). “Excursions”, p.162

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• And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Rights, Desire, Feudal System

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• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Country, War, Media

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• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

  Henry Fuseli

  Religious, Art, Military

  1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.149 (published 1831).

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• There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Looks, Body, X Files

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• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now primarily interested in preserving the stability of business, prices, and employment, and are not likely, when the choice is forced on us, deliberately to sacrifice these to outworn dogma, which had its value once, of 3 pounds, 17 shill ings, 10 1/2 pence per ounce. Advocates of the ancient standard do not observe how remote it now is from the spirit and the requirements of the age. A regulated nonmetallic standard has slipped in unnoticed. It exists.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Sacrifice, Choices, Age

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.

  John Dryden

  Long, Ark, Earth

  John Dryden, Ludwig GANTTER (1854). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, with Biographical and Critical Notices, Edited by Ludwig Gantter”, p.328

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• Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National Museum which had priceless antiquities in it. They say that this shows a fundamental lack of respect for Iraqi history. I want to remind those people of this: The oldest relics in the museum, 5,000 or 6,000 years old. That oil is 65 million years old. You had to guard that. ... Those antiquities will only last another 5,000 or 6,000 years. When we burn that oil, those fumes will linger long after.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Years, Oil

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.

  Max Barry

  Government, Long, Action

  "Jennifer Government". Book by Max Barry, 2003.

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• Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Moses, Prophet

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.328

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• If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.

  Robert Wright

  Change, Strong, War

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.314, Vintage

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