Destroying Quotes

568 quotes by 459 authors

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility… — Simone Weil
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools;… — Margaret of Valois
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the… — Charlie Munger
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes… — Rajneesh
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. — John Dryden
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species… — Janine Benyus
True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot… — Rabindranath Tagore
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening… — William J. H. Boetcker
Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me". — Leo Buscaglia
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator… — Oprah Winfrey
Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs. — Erik Brynjolfsson
The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America. — Alan Dershowitz
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am… — Rajneesh
The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate… — Allan Savory
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting… — Chuck Palahniuk
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting. — Charles B. Rangel
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. — Hank Johnson
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the… — Neil MacGregor
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. — Paul Hawken
Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache. — Paul Hawken

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