museum quotes

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.

The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from thesphere of practical politicsand put underaglasscase in the South Kensington Museum, labelled 'Extinct', the better for everyone.

- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
  West  African Studies.

   You're the top You're the Louvr'Museum You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss.

- Cole Porter
  'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.

The mind is a museum to be looted at night.

- Craig Anthony Raine
  'The Grey Boy'.

In the modern city, it takes on the status of a cathedral, our Chartres, our Notre Dame, our marble museum of the soul.

- Richard Rodriguez
  On San Francisco's new Museum of Modern Art. In the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, 27 Feb.