Defunct Quotes

Treason as a concept is defunct in the West. To succeed in war, governments need take this change into account. - Daniel Pipes

Today, dining rooms have become almost defunct as a place where a family enjoys an everyday meal together around the table. - David Bird

They came in 1984 when we were essentially defunct and kept this place going. We had a good run with Holly. - Dana Leach

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. - John Maynard Keynes

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. - Herman Melville

It's an indescribable feeling. Growing up, I used to do anything to hang out with the (former A-League's now-defunct) Colorado Foxes. - Matt Jordan

It is ridiculous that Bank of America feels that it should pay compensation for murky business dealings of long-defunct banks. Instead of standing up for their rights and the best interests of shareholders, Bank of America has chosen to take the coward's route of least resistance and pay off the shakedown artists in the reparations movement. - John Carlisle

I found that it was hard to find a publisher for a book about a now-defunct dairy company. - Brian Butko

He had been a banker in New Orleans prior to the Civil War. After the war, the banking industry was really defunct so he tried his hand at something new. - Paul McIlhenny