Their Own Destruction Quotes
17 quotes by 13 authors
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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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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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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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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
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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
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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
— Martin Scorsese
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: