Destroying Quotes

568 quotes by 459 authors

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us. — Henri Nouwen
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying… — Yoko Ono
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. — Chuck Palahniuk
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. — Jackson Pollock
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people. — Anwar Sadat
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans.… — Bernie Sanders
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. — Albert Schweitzer
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. — Madame de Stael
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. — Donald Trump
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire
I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we… — Vivienne Westwood
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of… — E F Schumacher
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. — Scott Westerfeld

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