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'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed. — Pete Doherty
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think… — Edward Albee
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that… — Nikola Tesla
Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed. — Barack Obama
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends… — Alexandre Kojeve
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are… — Greg Walden
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear… — Oskar Schindler
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could,… — Oskar Schindler
A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith. — Richard Wurmbrand
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is… — James Madison
You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not… — William Tecumseh Sherman
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. — Charles Churchill
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of… — Jacques Monod
Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only… — John Calvin
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western… — Thomas Sowell
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as… — J I Packer
I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven,… — John Bunyan
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media â€“ which, incidentally, is what… — Rupert Murdoch
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother. — Cotton Mather

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