Destroying Quotes

• Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

  Frank A. Clark

  Encouragement, Rain, Hard Work

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• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Peace

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Powerful, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

  Jane Goodall

  Successful, Fantastic Life, Years

  Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.

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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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• Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

  John Jay Hooker

  Democracy, Trying, Cost

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

  Colin Hay

  Character, Soul, Lines

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• We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Environmental, Needs

  "Summit Says: Instant Interviews". www.dailysummit.net. August 26, 2002.

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• Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Inferiority, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Karl Kraus

  Culture, Attention, Literature

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Rights, Long

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Violence, Destroying Ourselves

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 3

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• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  Ralph Steadman

  Selfish, Destroying Ourselves, Force

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• In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

  Heather Donahue

  Mean, Self, People

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• It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

  Alan Keyes

  Military, Agendas, Accepting

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• Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Intellectual, Friendly

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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• We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Community, Research

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Always Trying

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• It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me

  Tracey Emin

  Destroying Me, Dancing

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• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Wine, Mean

  "Tremendous Trifles. Secret of a Train". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Eye, Self, Realizing

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• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Media, Patterns

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• We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Airports, Baghdad, Force

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