Destroyed Quotes - Page 7

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature, Character, Men

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Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

W. Edwards Deming

Stars, Jobs, Motivation

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Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Gautama Buddha

Judging, People, Assumption

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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.

Wilfred Burchett

Cities, People, Dying

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The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

Joseph Sobran

Successful, United States, Revolution

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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse

Sissela Bok

Air, Water, Community

Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.63, Vintage

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Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

Mikhail Bakunin

Nihilism, Way, Middle

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A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

Howard Fineman

Party, Mean, Eye

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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Theodore White

Style, Television

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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

Jenny Shipley

Home, Decision, Storm

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As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Israel, Rome, Land

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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

Lorna Luft

Mother, Legends, Garlands

Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Baruch Spinoza

Soul, Mind, Body

Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.374, Hackett Publishing

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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

William Wordsworth

Memories, Soul, Passed Away

William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Gerrit Smith

Success, Slavery, Causes

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No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.

Melvin J. Ballard

Intelligent, Self, Law

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

James F. Bell, III

Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

Jim Fowler

Environmental, World, Littles

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This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

William Wordsworth

Tree, Decay, Form

William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

Al Gore

Cancer, Cutting, Sacrifice

Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

Max Muller

Pain, Cutting, Roots

Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.

James F. Bell, III

Motivational, Struggle, Opportunity

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To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

Eleanora Duse

Art, Drama, Air

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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

Leo Tolstoy

Body, Building, Destruction

graf Leo Tolstoy (1958). “An Anthology”

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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

Bayard Rustin

Injustice

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