Annihilation Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero Download Open image “Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]” — Marcus Tullius Cicero ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Annihilation Nature
“Hatred wants to annihilate, but it annihilates by destroying, by making our awareness dull, by suppressing, by dividing. True Nature does not really annihilate,… — A.H. Almaas Copy Share Image
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In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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“The reckless application of technology, harnessed to greed, degrades and destroys the ecosystems in which the energies of the elements are maintained in exquisite balance. Since the elements constitute us, we are also being degraded in the process. We are engaged in an ongoing assault on the planetary elements, the decimation of species, and the relentless suicidal degradation of our… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need to domesticate an environment. There is too often a deliberate rage and vengefulness at work in the assault on nature and its species, as if one would project onto the natural world the intolerable anxieties of… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share
Annihilation, they say, is the product of our motives. But since the dawn of time our purpose and impulse was to destroy. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“To upset the order of nature, and even more the order of God, who, for us, is more natural than nature itself, is to… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“This disappearance, this annihilation is all a matter of appearances as seen through the eyes of the false self. The annihilation is only apparent,… — James Finley Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of anything other than spiritual annihilation. Where your soul is sucked into the void. — Crispian Mills Copy Share Image
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Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations once more… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image