Vestige Quotes


I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this ' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

No nude however abstract should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

There is no vestige of a beginning no prospect of an end.

Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.

Anti-Semitism as an extreme form of racial chauvinism is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

The existence of the soldier next to capital punishment is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

The result therefore of this physical enquiry is that we find no vestige of a beginning no prospect of an end.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race in its years of evolution has so painfully acquired.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

Her young soul felt cut up like a fifty-year-old like a squirrel that appeared content but carried scars from the vestige of time in its black and gray grooves.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind

We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.