Destroying Quotes
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The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
Hayao Miyazaki
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If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
Miuccia Prada
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
John Brunner
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Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.
Millard Fillmore
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Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.
Erik Brynjolfsson
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Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.
Evo Morales
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Destroying things is much easier than making them.
Suzanne Collins
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
Susan Orlean
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I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
Bill Etherington
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A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.
Richard K. Morgan
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The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
Eugene Kennedy