The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.