Destroyed Quotes
1168 quotes by 891 authors
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Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.
— Rajneesh
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The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their…
— Edmund Burke
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If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.
— Jean Hugard
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The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman…
— Henri Pirenne
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The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
— Franz Wright
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My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.
— Richard Kuklinski
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I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
— Frederick Soddy
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Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have…
— Jimmy Reid
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My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can…
— Alfred Nobel
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And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain…
— Joey Comeau
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Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is…
— Randall Robinson
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I think what kind of destroyed the franchise, in some ways, was ego and vanity. When that element of ego and vanity that's sitting there…
— Joe Flanigan
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To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is…
— Elaine Scarry
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You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are…
— Richard de Bury
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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
— Bayard Rustin
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
— Billy Joel
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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
— Ayn Rand
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The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now…
— Eckhart Tolle
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