Destroying Quotes · Page 10

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

— Richard J. Foster

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

— Paul Hawken

Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.

— Stella McCartney

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

— Rajneesh

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

— Hilaire Belloc

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its…

— Dante Alighieri

Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.

— Bernie Sanders

The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and…

— Noam Chomsky

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this…

— Thomas Bernhard

The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a…

— Mother Teresa

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the…

— Jane Goodall

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that…

— Sean Penn

I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are…

— Edna Ferber

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed…

— Lyall Watson

The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or…

— Josephus

A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have…

— Nhat Hanh

Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays…

— Erich Fromm

One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early…

— Noam Chomsky

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support…

— Edward Abbey

Hillary Clinton has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA and she supported China's…

— Donald Trump

I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same.…

— Sam Lamott

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of…

— Henry Adams

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

— Maxime Bernier

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

— Tony Robbins

We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and…

— Denis Halliday

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

— Albert Camus

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

— Olivia de Havilland

I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

— Shinya Yamanaka

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

— Osama bin Laden

“We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.”

— Harold Bloom

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

— Phil Harding

“What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying…

— Stacey Kade

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

— Devon Monk

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.

— Francois Hollande

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

— Lionel Shriver

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

— Stephenie Meyer