Destroying Quotes
568 Destroying quotes by 459 unique authors
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Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one…
— Kofi Annan
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We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is…
— Chris Hedges
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In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken…
— Paul Theroux
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We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind…
— Roberto Calasso
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Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering...…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it,…
— Steve Irwin
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The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through…
— David Haye
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The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They…
— Ayn Rand
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The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
— Billy Graham
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I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to…
— Vinoba Bhave
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Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
— E. O. Wilson
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That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no…
— E F Schumacher
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Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have…
— Arundhati Roy
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How do we get America back to work? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are…
— Ted Cruz
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The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
— Tony Robbins
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The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.
— Henry Cavill
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God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he is averting their…
— Andrew Sandlin
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Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this…
— John Jay Hooker
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its…
— Ivan Turgenev
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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a…
— Tom Tancredo
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Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have…
— Mel White
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