Destroying Quotes

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WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a… — Wendell Berry
People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soilâ€”soil consecrated in the blood of… — Douglas MacArthur
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… — Henry Adams
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did… — John Humphrys
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense… — Jacques Barzun
If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-â€‹destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once… — Walter Benjamin
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in… — Marquis de Sade
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must… — Wafa Sultan
Destroying America will be the culmination of my life's work. — George Soros
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual… — Emile M. Cioran
America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings. — Osama bin Laden
An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator. — Wally Wood
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each… — Dave Barry
This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame. — Winston Churchill
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. — Margaret J. Wheatley
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed… — Cassius Dio
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we… — Millard Fillmore
The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife… — Mother Teresa

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