A Quote by Alexander Pope
Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
The Greeks, the Italians, and the Indians, from whom we get our ideas, erect monuments to ideas; we erect ours to men, and of such monuments we have an oversupply.
At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
We must ask ourselves: Are we a confident, forward-looking nation that builds monuments - like DACA - to hope and determination? Or are we a nation that is turned inward, lauding monuments to intolerance and division?
I leave you, home,
when I'm ripped from the doorstep
by commerce or fate. Then I submit
to the awful subway of the world.
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.
America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals.
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
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