Destroying Quotes

568 Destroying quotes by 459 unique authors

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. — Unknown Author
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
Though it's a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice… — Yash Chopra
Repeatedly asking for government help undermines the foundations of society by destroying initiative and responsibility. It is also a fatal blow to efficiency and corrupts… — Charles Koch
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism… — Norman Angell
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the… — Evelyn Waugh
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them… — Unknown Author
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a… — Ian Somerhalder
My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal… — Jack Nicholson
If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you… — Debbie Ford
The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. — Olivia de Havilland
The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America. — Charlie Daniels
After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World… — Triple H
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But… — Bill Maher
If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs… it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich… — Newt Gingrich
We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral. — Denis Halliday

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