Destroying Quotes - Page 13

• [The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism....we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so they can impose their socialist 'utopia' of higher taxes, restricted access, inferior quality, and deadly inefficiency on the best health care system in the world....You and the RNC are all that stand between the Democrats' scheme to take more of your hard-earned income to pay for this unsustainable, freedom destroying entitlement and an opportunity to work for real, truly bipartisan step-by-step solutions.

  Michael Steele

  Real, Opportunity, Quality

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• But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

  Lu Xun

  Iron, House, No Hope

  Lu Xun (2015). “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”, p.131, Lu Xun

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• Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Soul, Language, Form

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• I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

  Jessamyn West

  Hate, Creating, Mind

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

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• I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology and killing off fellow creatures, we have a chance to bring a new harmony and a new path to human development.

  Harry Belafonte

  Thinking, Technology, Path

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  Ted Turner

  Elephants, Rest Of Life, Pandas

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dream, Couple, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

  George Carlin

  Army, Drug, Soldier

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Book, Home

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• Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

  Noam Chomsky

  Survival, World, May

  "Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders can't save America" by Noam Chomsky, www.salon.com. September 25, 2015.

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• I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

  Mike Leigh

  Optimistic, Planets, I Can

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Hate, Heart, Men

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

  Charles Koch

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you really love people, you say you really love people, really care about people, want the best for people, well, America is the best place. Instead of coming here and destroying it, why not copy it, replicate it?

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, Why Not

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I certainly wouldn't stand for policies that are gonna end up destroying America, this special place, because once this special place is destroyed and is no longer special, then where is everybody gonna go?

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Special, Ends

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

  Vernon Howard

  Regret, Mistake, Past

  "The Power of Esoterics". Book by Vernon Howard, 1999.

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• I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis
  and that's dangerous.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Analysis, Judgment

  "Gladwell reaches his tipping point", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2005.

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• The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.

  David Graeber

  Russia, Movement, Weight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

  William Kittredge

  Environmental, Earth, Sustainability

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• Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Organization, Our World

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• I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.

  Bernie Sanders

  Art, Wall, America

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.

  Adam Levine

  Self Confidence, Acne, May

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• We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.

  John Conyers

  Fire, Democracy, World

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• The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

  Noam Chomsky

  Machines, World, China

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Song, Acceptance

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.606, e-artnow

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