Annihilation Quotes
139 quotes by 120 authors
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
— Horatio Nelson
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But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
— Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger,…
— Sun Tzu
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation...
— Ludwig von Mises
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the…
— Winston Churchill
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
— Winifred Holtby
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Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science,…
— Adolf Hitler
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But…
— Bertrand Russell
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),…
— Robert Boyle
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Nature abhors annihilation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
— Marquis de Sade
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
— Richard Leakey
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The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
— Andrea Dworkin
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to…
— James Madison
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is…
— Marquis de Sade
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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit…
— Andrea Dworkin
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