Dead Reckoning Positions

Famous quotes containing the words dead, reckoning and/or positions:

    “Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “With earth’s first clay they did the last man knead,
    There of the last harvest sowed the seed,
    And what the first morning of creation wrote,
    The last dawn of reckoning shall read.”
    —Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883)

    “... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the “establishment.””
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)