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Perish Quotes

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He is condemned to perish in either case.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.