Destroying Quotes

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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous… — Robert Boyle
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to… — Hilary Putnam
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God… — Hubert Reeves
I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than… — Roy Rappaport
When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying… — Shinya Yamanaka
Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the… — Achille Mbembe
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as… — J F C Fuller
Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources. — Stella McCartney
Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice:… — Evo Morales
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the… — Jacques Ellul
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content. — Jean-Paul Sartre
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. — Moses Sofer
The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one… — Thomas Jefferson
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and… — Roland Barthes
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities. — Assar Lindbeck
Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for… — Kumi Naidoo
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral… — Jeff Cooper

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