25 Quotes About Monuments

Endow your monuments according to your wealth.Even one day gives to eternity,An hour contributes to the future,God recognizes him who works for him.

To select only monuments supresses at one stroke the reality of the land and that of its people, it accounts for nothing of the present, that is, nothing historical, and as a consequence, the monuments themselves become undecipherable, therefore senseless. What is to be seen is thus constantly in the process of vanishing, and the Guide becomes, through an operation common to all mystifications, the very opposite of what it advertises, an agent of blindness.

It is certainly true that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but words become as monuments to thoughts.

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

Removing statues in many ways is about finding a more accurate history, a history that is more keeping with the best scholarship that we have out there. So for me, it is about making sure we don’t forget what those statues symbolize. It’s about pruning them, removing some, contextualizing others and recognizing that there is nothing wrong with a country recognizing that its identity is evolving over time. And as this identity evolves, so does what it remembers. So it does what it celebrates.

I always thought that would be really neat if black people ever got control of the United States we would, of course, tear down some of the statues because we just don't like them...like all of Richmond would probably not have a statue standing.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

People value monuments above men, and signs above works.