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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Faith, Live

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion, Another, Against

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin

Best, System, Capitalist

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell

Him, Situation, Felt

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

Drunk, Reality, Writing

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

Men, Human, Sea

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Learning, Wise

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham

Power, Human, Speak

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray Bradbury

Once, Automobile, Appeared

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov

Society, American, Read

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Time, Power, History

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Good, Bad

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
Jesus Christ

Within, Bring, Save

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon

Hate, Yourself, May

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson

Good, Men, Fight

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James A. Baldwin

Law, Hatred, Failed

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan

Down, Country, Spring

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch

God, Made, Mankind

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

Teacher, Style, Honors

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

Time, Live, Learn

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir

Power, May, Him

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

War, Nation, Means

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon

Hate, Yourself, Win

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
Donald Trump

Great, Trying, Country

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides

God, Mad, Makes

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall

God, Yourself, Else

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Become

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