Destroys Quotes

524 Destroys quotes by 420 unique authors

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that… — Raoul Vaneigem
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys. — Cesar Chavez
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates. — Charles Dudley Warner
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion… — Aristotle
Fire destroys that which feeds it. — Simone Weil
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things… — Seneca the Younger
Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you. — Holbrook Jackson
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. — Nathanael Emmons
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant
Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that destroys that love… — Rajneesh
A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That… — Rajneesh
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. — Blaise Pascal
The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it… — Camille Pissarro
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more. — Katharine Hepburn
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is… — Jean Vanier
To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness… — Rajneesh
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is… — Thomas More
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far… — Rajneesh
People are imitative and imitation is bound to be unintelligent. They want to do exactly the things which others are doing. That destroys their freshness.… — Rajneesh
Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say… — David Pocock
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. — Norm MacDonald

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