antiquities quotes

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.2, section1.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

- Friedrich Engels
  The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.