Destruction Quotes
1562 Destruction quotes by 1091 unique authors
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New arts destroy the old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
— Joseph Addison
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
— Walter Benjamin
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Thought would destroy their paradise.
— Thomas Gray
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We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save…
— Omar N. Bradley
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
— Will Durant
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With this ego arises all the problems, the thousand and one problems. This ego will not allow you to fall in love and millions of…
— Rajneesh
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They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
— Janet Reno
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The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to…
— Sean MacBride
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The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
— William J. Clinton
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Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth…
— Pope John Paul II
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The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that…
— Al Gore
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I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in…
— Leo Szilard
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes…
— G. H. Hardy
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Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are…
— Bill Maher
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Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do,…
— George Carlin
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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.
— Anthony Hopkins
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The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
— Sigmund Freud
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Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries…
— Marion Woodman
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Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.
— Norma McCorvey
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