By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts…

— Angelina Grimke

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act…

— Yiyun Li

“All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of…

— Henry Miller

“Christian religion cannot abandon this supernaturalism without annihilating itself.”

— Herman Bavinck

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

— Andrew Marvell

I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.

— Edmund Kemper

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

— Louis Aragon

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

— Jennifer Beals

“We are failing as one human race. Nothing seems to justify our so-called I.Q. levels. We are bent on annihilating the world.”

— Avijeet Das

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless…

— Max Born

I am still saving myself from the last time you came knocking at my door. I shattered my wrists to catch myself from falling.…

— Anonymous

“To annihilate injustice with justice is in my DNA.”

— KHADIM PURGI

“Touch her'- his voice was laced with malice, even as it faded to a mere whisper- 'and I'll annihilate you all.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

We annihilate anybody that violate. Ask any dopeboy you know, they admire Ye'

— Kanye West