“When we speak plainly of death we stand equal to it.”
"Complete Hero" (2009)
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British artist and activist 1963Related quotes
As quoted in Sunday Times Magazine (8 June 1986).
“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
Maxim 1
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Not special justice, not social justice, but equal justice. We are the inheritors and the protectors of the civil rights movement. They are perverting it. They're perverting it, and they're doing it intentionally. And they're selling us a line of global nonsense.
2010s, 2010
“We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob.”
Letter to Sir Edward Grey (15 September 1913)
1910s
Context: We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
On Puerto Ricans and their relationship with the United States, in a 1999 WOSO radio station interview in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb
“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)