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Destroy Quotes by John Steinbeck
- If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
- ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them....…
- A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a…
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
More Destroy Quotes
- 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