Destroying Quotes

568 Destroying quotes by 459 unique authors

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it.… — Gore Vidal
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. — Voltaire
I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we… — Vivienne Westwood
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,… — Albert Einstein
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of… — E F Schumacher
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. — Scott Westerfeld
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of… — John Gardner
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. — Alan Paton
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it. — Patricia Briggs
I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it… — Mahatma Gandhi
And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world… — Joss Whedon
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting,… — Albert Schweitzer
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is… — Lyall Watson
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. — Gloria Steinem
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed,… — Scott Westerfeld
She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common… — Linda Howard
One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant… — Jeannette Walls
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq… — Robert Baer

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