Destruction Quotes - Page 8

• We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

  Aesop

  Mean, Giving, Enemy

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

  Audre Lorde

  Differences, Growth, Progress

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Construction, States

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

  Rebecca West

  Powerful, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  Janet Frame

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

  Lewis Mumford

  Peace, War, Misery

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

  George Haven Putnam

  Government, Dungeons, Self Destruction

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  Powerful, War, Weapons

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• Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

  George W. Bush

  Mass Destruction, Ties, Terrorist Groups

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

  Love, Fear, Children

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• Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Renovation, Reconstruction, Values

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.171, Verso

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• When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Helping, God Help

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• We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Money, Peace

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Politics

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• Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.

  Peter Chernin

  Men, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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• Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

  Hideki Tojo

  Respect, War, Justice For All

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• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

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• Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

  Bernard Baruch

  Peace, War, World Destruction

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1946). “United States atomic energy proposals: Statement of the United States policy on control of atomic energy”

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  1982 A Severed Wasp.

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• Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Visitation

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1857). “Miscellaneous Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg”, p.476

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• It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

  Michael Servetus

  Devil, Christianity, Invention

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• The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

  John Boehner

  Israel, Violence, Hezbollah

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