Destroying Quotes

• The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Power
  • Destroying

• The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

  

  William Kittredge
  • Environmental
  • Destroying

• An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.

  

  Wally Wood
  • Someone
  • Creator
  • Dedicated

• We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Choices
  • Animal
  • Strange

• Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Eating
  • Destroying
  • Repast

• If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Human being
  • Connected
  • Separated

• 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
  • Government
  • Presidential
  • Responsible

• The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Stop
  • Enemy
  • Battlefield

• Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Death
  • Thoughts
  • Forces

• I believe the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Economy
  • I Believe
  • Destroying

• Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Christ

• 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
  • Animal
  • Burn
  • Alternatives

• 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
  • Religion
  • Comfort
  • Ravishment

• To walk out of here and never look back. To put her heart and soul into loving those around her, loving her baby, instead of destroying herself.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Loving

• The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • War
  • Soldier
  • Germans

• 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
  • Remember
  • Weapons
  • Destroying

• Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Humanity

• I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Drug
  • Alcohol
  • Destroying

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