Destroyers Quotes

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Fleet

• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Suicide
  • Destroyers

• The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Visitors
  • Telephones
  • Destroyers

• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Creates
  • Destroyers

• Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

  

  Baba Hari Dass
  • Desire
  • Creator
  • Destroyers

• You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Democracy
  • Obeying
  • Escalating

• If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

  

  Eve Best
  • Theater
  • Negativity
  • Heroines

• The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Creator
  • Anthropology
  • Destroyers

• The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Force
  • Virtues
  • Proportion