Destroying Quotes

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

Time, Words, Vote

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying, Problem, Far

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, Small

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire

Before, Support, Virtue

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, Powerful, Kindness

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank A. Clark

Rain, Enough, Growth

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Trying, Far, Within

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. Wilson

Painting, Economic, Gain

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Health, Mind, Trying

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Lost, Earth

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Away, Wine

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Men, Powerful, Down

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
Donald Trump

Focus, Big, United

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk

Power, Through, Spirit

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, Fear, Making

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

Life, Faith, Battle

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat

Fear, Soul, Individual

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

Evil, Lie, Humanity

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
William Glasser

Education, Teacher, Bad

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Jerry Brown

Thinking, Control, Media

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Simone de Beauvoir

Society, Woman, Away

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
Newt Gingrich

Respect, Deep, Person

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane Goodall

Down, Living, Poverty

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
Keith Henson

Family, Children, Losing

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

Science, Loved, Seen

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

Powerful, Poor, Often

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael

Love, Time, Fear

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing

Love, Violence, Ourselves

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.
Rick Perry

Great, Looking, Guy

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