Destroying Quotes - Page 17

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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Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

Patricia Hampl

Pain, Mean, Secret

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The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.

Sharon Gannon

Yoga, Teaching, Practice

Sharon Gannon, David Life (2002). “Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul”, Random House LLC

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Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.

Maneka Gandhi

Money, Food, Animal

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Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.

Barbara Marciniak

War, Fighting, Reality

Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.70, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance.

Albert Einstein

Hands, Left Hand, Add

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That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

William Faulkner

Church, Inward, Bells

William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.

Swami Vivekananda

Dog, Men, Doors

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Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

Konrad Lorenz

Suicide, Dog, Baby

Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

Herman Melville

Heart, Whales, Sea

Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

Phil Harding

Children, Land, Meals

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It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

Andrew Simms

Country, Ice Cream, Economic Value

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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

Wendell Berry

Kentucky, Order, Ifs And

"Taking Care of What We’ve Been Given". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. April 15, 2006.

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... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

Wendell Berry

Drinking, Community, Environmental

Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

Harrison Schmitt

Art, Facts, Bears

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Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

Kofi Annan

Children, Battle, Use

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To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.

Chris Hedges

Struggle, Ecosystems, Understanding

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In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken up by boutique owners (one of the fanciest clothes stores in London is called Che Guevara). There is no faster way of destroying a man or mocking his ideas than making him fashionable. That Che succeeded in influencing dress-designers was part of his tragedy.

Paul Theroux

Taken, Fate, Men

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We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.

Roberto Calasso

Sacrifice, Giving, Connections

"Roberto Calasso speaks on 'The Last Superstition'". The Paris Review interview, bookhaven.stanford.edu.

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Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Party, Judging, Suffering

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I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

Steve Irwin

Country, Optimistic, Environmental

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The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

David Haye

Motivation, Stupid, Numbers

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The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

Ayn Rand

Champion, Majority, Slavery

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.264, Penguin

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The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

Billy Graham

Real, Excess, World

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I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

Vinoba Bhave

Cutting, Tree, Desire

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