“The dead must not rise—they undermine everything their dying created.”
Source: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 1 (p. 13)
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Source: Dynamics Of Theology, Chapter Five, The Status of Scripture in the Church, p. 91
“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
“It would be premature to suggest that the nation-state is dead or dying.”
p, 125
War and Change in World Politics (1981)
“Children are memory's voices, and preserve
The dead from wholly dying.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, lines 505–506 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Speech to Conservative Women's Conference (24 May 1978) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103696.
Leader of the Opposition
Context: All over the country, particularly in our large urban areas, old people do go in fear and trembling as never before during either the lifetime of their parents or grandparents... we have been too ready to listen to those who believe that rising crime is due to things like higher unemployment, poor housing, poor pay. While it has always been part of Conservative policy to raise the standard of living of our people we must recognise that in the 1930's there were far more people out of work, far less prosperity and worse housing—but much less crime than now... Rising crime is not due to “society”—but to the steady undermining of personal responsibility and self-discipline—all things which are taught within the family.
“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”
“Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.”
Source: Cosmopolis
[harv, Archibald, Malcolm, http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/marusya.htm, Atamansha: the Story of Maria Nikiforova, the Anarchist Joan of Arc, Black Cat Press, Dublin, 10, 2007, 9780973782707, 239359065]