Destruction Quote by John Carroll Download Open image “Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.” — John Carroll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destruction Men Seeking Variety
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put… — John Jortin Copy Share Image
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89 — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil;… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities,… — John Carroll 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