Their Own Destruction Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

• 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
• 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
• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. — James A. Baldwin
• The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. — John Kenneth Galbraith
• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. — Owen D. Young
• 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… — Unknown Author
• Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. — Bryant H. McGill
• I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. — Martin Scorsese
• I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction — Lois Lowry
• At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we… — W G Sebald
• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after… — James A. Baldwin
• A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested… — James A. Baldwin
• Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too… — Lisa Genova
• I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they… — James A. Baldwin
• We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and… — Mohammed Morsi
• No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction. — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Their Own Destruction Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 17 Their Own Destruction Quotes as follows:

• 4 Their Own Destruction Quotes by James A. Baldwin
• 2 Their Own Destruction Quotes by Unknown Author
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by W G Sebald
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Owen D. Young
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Mohammed Morsi
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Martin Scorsese
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Lois Lowry
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Lisa Genova
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by John Playfair
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Jane Jacobs
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• 1 Their Own Destruction Quote by Bryant H. McGill