Destroyed Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice

  "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal".

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• The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Monsters, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

  Bunker Roy

  Motivation, Inspiration, India

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• Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Son, Law

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• Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

  Berel Wein

  Blessed, Justice, Generations

  Berel Wein (1990). “Triumph of Survival: The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1990”, p.14, Mesorah Publications

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• I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

  Peter Biskind

  Years, Lucky, Politician

  Peter Biskind (2013). “My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles”, p.178, Macmillan

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• For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Struggle, Civilization, Generations

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.

  Frank Smith

  Song, Book, Writing

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• It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.

  Tim Waterstone

  Book, Simple, Together Again

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• Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

  Ansel Adams

  Children, Legacy, Splendid

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• Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Obstacles, Rigor

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• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Lying, Believe

  "Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

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• Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

  R. D. Laing

  Self, Way, Behavior

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

  Zhang Yimou

  Piracy

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• I’d always heard that when you truly love someone, you’re happy for them as long they’re happy. But that’s a lie. That’s higher-road bullshit. If you love someone so much, why the hell would you be happy to see them with anyone else? I didn’t want the easy kind of love. I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

  Julie Murphy

  Crazy, Lying, Long

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