Destroyed Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destroyed Hate I hate Rebellion Violent
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and… — Margarethe von Trotta Copy Share Image
I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent — Publius Cornelius Tacitus Copy Share Image
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image