The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.
If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast if from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
One [section of the nation] would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Those who make war unjustly shall perish
If we do not act together, we will surely perish.
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
When trade is at stake it is your last retrenchment; you must defend it, or perish.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
... My firm conviction [is] that it is the force of ideas rather than the impact of material things that made us a great nation. It is my conviction, too, that only the power of ideas, of enduring values, can keep us a great nation. For where there is not vision the people perish
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
