Destroy Quotes
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If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
John Locke Nazareth
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We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
Rene Girard
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It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Haruki Murakami
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Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
Bill Press
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Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.
Martin Luther
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For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.
Erwin McManus
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One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.
Alan Chambers
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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
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Hannah Arendt
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
Sigmund Freud
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Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
Deb Olin Unferth
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The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.
Eric Massa
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If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.
Benjamin Creme
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable.
Etty Hillesum
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You know, your species humans has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
Ben Aaronovitch
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
Adolf Hitler
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A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
Adolf Hitler
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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
William Blake
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Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house...
Natsuki Takaya
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If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
George Saunders