Browsing Topic Best Lest We Forget Quotes

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don’t know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

Still stands thine ancient sacrifice – An humble and a contrite heart.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,Lest we forget–lest we forget!

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.