Destroying Quotes
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Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing
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President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"
Abraham Lincoln -
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs. But right now the pace is accelerating. It's faster we think than ever before in history. So as a consequence, we are not creating jobs at the same pace that we need to.
Erik Brynjolfsson -
We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.
Marianne Williamson -
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
Rajneesh -
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan Paton -
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
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Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.
Bryan Kest -
Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
Ferid Murad -
Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.
Woodie Flowers -
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.
Albert Einstein -
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
Ivan Turgenev
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There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
Albert Camus -
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.
Cassius Dio -
I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all
Vincenzo Luvineri Army of the Pharaohs -
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
Abraham Lincoln -
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
John Gardner -
Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
William Congreve -
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Scott Westerfeld -
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
Richard Scott Bakker