Destroying Quotes
568 quotes by 472 authors
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Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very…
— Jeff Buckley
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There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country…
— Norman Finkelstein
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We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby…
— Jan Tschichold
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated…
— William D. Leahy
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Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
— William D. Leahy
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying…
— Thomas Bernhard
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A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that…
— F. C. S. Schiller
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If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up…
— Marilyn Manson
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A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions,…
— Mary Jo Putney
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We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the level…
— Ray Kurzweil
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A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy…
— Fred Phelps
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If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held…
— Esther Vilar
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I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything…
— William McDonough
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If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
— Charlie Munger
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Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all…
— David Graeber
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We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves
— Otto Frank
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The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism,…
— Theodore Schroeder
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It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the…
— Patricia Monaghan
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The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,
— Mildred Fay Jefferson
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