Destruction Quote by James A. Baldwin Download Open image “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.” — James A. Baldwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destruction Eye Innocence Invites People Reality Religion
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is only now beginning to be borne in on us—very faintly, it must be admitted, very slowly, and very much against our will—that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed. — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
People who face the reality they have power to face bad phases, no matter how hard it is to face. — Kiran Copy Share Image
Those who run away from the reality will eventually get run over by it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats. — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
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