Destroying Quotes - Page 3

• Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

  Bulleh Shah

  God, Heart, Sight

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Women

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

  Alphonse Mucha

  Hope, Bridges, Creating

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• I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.

  Zachary Levi

  Music, Dance, Song

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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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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• That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

  P. C. Hodgell

  Faith, Clever, Truth

  P.C. Hodgell (2014). “The Sea of Time”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

  Henri de Lubac

  Powerful, Change Is Good, Routine

  Henri de Lubac (1987). “Paradoxes of Faith”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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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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• 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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• Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Brother, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

  Marshall Berman

  Adventure, Power, Joy

  Marshall Berman (1983). “All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity”, p.15, Verso

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• Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?

  Chief Powhatan

  Love, War, Food

  Address to Captain John Smith, delivered in 1609

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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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• 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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• Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Success, Accountability

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• If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Love, Hurt, Kindness

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

  Margaret of Valois

  Love, Romantic, Wise

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• We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stupidity, Greed, Danger

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• What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Sharks, People

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

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• We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

  Hank Green

  People, Challenges, Planets

  Quote on the EcoGeek Mainpage, www.ecogeek.org.

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• Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Evil

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

  Andre Maurois

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Responsibility, Violence, Firsts

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