Famous quotes containing the words future, claims and/or liabilities:
“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no countryno interests staked in public wealno liabilities in common perilno partnership in a nations guilt and shame?”
—Angelina Grimké (18051879)