pyramid quotes

   What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in pile'  d stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.

-John Milton
  'On Shakespeare'.

For too long, society has resembled a pyramid that has been turned upside down and made to rest on its summit. I have replaced it on its base.

-LouisNapoleon Bonaparte
  Speech to the Legislative  Assembly, 29 Mar.

If the war didn't happen to kill you it was bound to start you thinking. After that unspeakable idiotic mess you couldn't go on regarding society as something eternal and unquestionable, like a pyramid.You knew it was just a balls-up. 628

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  Coming Up For Air, pt.2, ch.8.