“What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.”
"Sand Dabs, Five"
Winter Hours (1999)
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“Here is the hammer, that build the scaffold, and built the box…”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, From Her to Eternity (1984), A Box for Black Paul
“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Marilyn Stokstad (1929–2016) art historian
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“We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Things,” p. 87
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
To a Voice of America journalist in Berlin during a European tour, 3 September 1984, as cited in Venture into the Exterior: Through Europe With P.W. Botha, John Scott, 1984
“You can't build a secure future on dishonest money.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (11 October 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106145 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister <br class="br">Context: We will not reflate... Past governments have tried that. Past governments have deliberately created inflation in the hope of reducing unemployment. It always finished up with worse inflation and worse unemployment. Mr President, You can't build a secure future on dishonest money. And there is a fundamental truth, from which no government can escape.