Destroying Quotes - Page 2

• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  Wangari Maathai

  Nature, Powerful, Government

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• Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Drawing, Battle, Life Is

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.138, Library of America

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• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

  Randy Newman

  Ideas, Genius, Classic

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• The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Cutting, America

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• Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Today

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• Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

  John M. McHugh

  Dollars, Environment, Taxpayers

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• The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Crush, Soul, Tvs

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

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• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  Warren Mitchell

  Atheist, Hate, Thinking

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• The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Erotic, Brotherhood

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

  Tracey Emin

  Children, Thinking, Would Be

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

  Jerry Falwell

  Islamic, Monsters, World

  "Transcript of Pat Robertson's Interview with Jerry Falwell". "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, archive.commondreams.org. September 13, 2001.

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• If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

  Susan Powter

  Ozone, Want, Layers

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• Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

  William Devane

  Faces, Aging, Amount

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• I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

  Tom Tancredo

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Politics

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strong, Men, Libertarian

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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• We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own.

  Maurice Samuel

  Conquer The World, Forever, Novelists

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• Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

  Mina Loy

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

  Imran Khan

  Deep Thought, Defeat, Politician

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Black, Society

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• Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Inspirational, Art, Powerful

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

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• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Meaningful, Work

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• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Freedom, Mean, Army

  House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.

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