Perish Quotes:
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Adolf Hitler
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ
Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.
Mitt Romney
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Jules Verne
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Ben Okri
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Francois Rabelais
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
Mother Angelica
What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’
Bernice King
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
George A. Moore
If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.
William Lloyd Garrison
If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.
William Lloyd Garrison
The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Phaedrus
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
Gustav Mahler
All our compatriots know that the loss of Mongolia would mean the demise of our country. We would rather resist Russia and die heroically than succumb to Russia and perish shamefully.
Sun Yat-sen
I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters – or perish as fools.
Alveda King
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country’s welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
Horace Walpole
The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you’ll perish.
Olivia De Havilland