Dead Reckoning Positions

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

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“He wasn’t off a mere degree;
His reckoning was off a sea.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“... 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)