"The axe is laid to the root of the tree. ... I will hew it down. And as I live, I will plague your Honor, Pomp, Greatness, Superfluity, and confound it into parity, equality, community."
React to this quote
More by Abiezer Coppe
See allResonant Thoughts
"God has far better things to do than creating self-important little species such as ours. He's got wars, deaths, disasters and diseases to ignore for starters. And a fair bit of not-exist-ing-at-all t…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants a…"
— Thom Yorke"If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory b…"
— Jaron Lanier"Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when th…"
— Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore"Once its considered proper to use government force to solve one person's problem, force can be justified to…"
— Harry Browne"It is a melancholy reflection that our modes of population have been more destructive to the Indian natives…"
— Henry Knox"We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that requires a supernatural element to be a…"
— Victor J. Stenger

