Monuments Quotes

“Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

“Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.”

“The thought came back to him, as it often did: To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon as the battle was won … it was unheard of, but that was exactly what Walker Hancock and the other Monuments Men intended to do.”

“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.”

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

“Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.”

“The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.”

“The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history. ”