Destroyed Quotes
1168 quotes by 911 authors
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed
— Barack Obama
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We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed himself in a…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must…
— Alexander Hamilton
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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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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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must…
— Umberto Eco
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This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for…
— Ronald Reagan
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Every gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will…
— Harvey Milk
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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length…
— Aristotle
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.
— Janet Morris
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The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur…
— Noel Ignatiev
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called…
— Harold Pinter
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If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
— Garry Kasparov
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with…
— Victor Hugo
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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a…
— Albert Einstein
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