Empty Shape

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or shape:

    Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind’s throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)