Own Destruction Quotes
54 quotes by 48 authors
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
— Aesop
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
— Fisher Ames
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own…
— John Playfair
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
— Adolf Hitler
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Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind,…
— Anton Myrer
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds…
— Jane Jacobs
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
— James A. Baldwin
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For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.
— Marvin Gaye
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The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
— Owen D. Young
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Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill…
— Anne Desclos
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We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid…
— Dmitry Manuilsky
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs,…
— Kathleen Raine
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The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own…
— Aesop
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
— Mark Twain
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It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you…
— Rachel Cusk
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
— R C Sproul
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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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I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction.
— Jeffrey Dahmer
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Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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