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Destroy Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
- If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse
- The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
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- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. — John Quincy Adams
- All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of… — Charles A. Beard
- All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is… — Simone de Beauvoir
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
- Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have… — Ingrid Bergman
- Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. — Aneurin Bevan
- He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives… — William Blake