Destroying Quotes - Page 16

• Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Book, Pages, Stewardship

  Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

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• Capitalism is destroying the earth.

  Helen Caldicott

  Earth, Destroying The Earth, Capitalism

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• Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

  Marcia Angell

  Pain, Should Have, Practice

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• No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Soul, Doctrine

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.277

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• The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Falling In Love, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

  Jane Goodall

  Motivation, Inspiration, Home

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• And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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• The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

  Andy Stanley

  Creativity, Discipline, Challenges

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• Bombing embassies or destroying non-military installations like the World Trade Center is no jihad. “[T]hose who launched the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks not only killed thousands of innocent people in the United States but also put the lives of millions of Muslims across the world at risk. Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for.

  Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

  Military, People, Risk

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• Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

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• I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

  John Balance

  Believe, Reputation, Mystery

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• Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Cities, Humanity, Today

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• Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

  Rick Owens

  Landscape

  "Is Rick Owens the new Karl Lagerfeld?" by Rachel Holmes, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

  Henry Cloud

  Couple, Real, Years

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.127, Zondervan

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• So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

  John Marsden

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.

  Chalene Johnson

  Giving, Weight, Body

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• I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all

  Vinnie Paz

  War, Horror, Carnivores

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• It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

  Vandana Shiva

  Investment, Planets, Ifs

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• When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Artist, Discovery

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Thinking, Building

  "Colbert Channels ‘Dr. Strangelove’ To Solve Park51 Dilemma" By Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

  Anais Nin

  Alive, Life Is, Moments

  "D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers" by Leo Hamalian, (p. 93), 1996.

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

  Dick Motta

  Sports, Stars, Motivation

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• The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Art, Philosophy, Way

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• How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave’s mind. More effective than whips and guns was the simple act of outlawing the teaching of slaves to read and to write.

  Kyle Baker

  Teaching, Writing, Gun

  Kyle Baker (2015). “Nat Turner”, p.7, Abrams

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