Famous quotes containing the words pagoda, history and/or construction:
“One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)