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«The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board»
«Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.»
«The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.»
«We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
class struggle, dreadful, feared, middle class, Nothing to Lose, sink, sinking, struggles, working class
«Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
chart, charted, charting, compass, guide, lamp, obligation, overboard, sink, The Bottom, tread, unchanged, voyage
«Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink»
«The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
afflicted, certainty, cut out, forgets, impotence, listened, occasionally, perceives, sink