Destroyed Quotes

• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Integrity, Sacrifice

  "Our blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell on the Future of Games, Wearable Computers, Windows 8 and More". allthingsd.com. July 25, 2012.

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Answers, Infinite, Finite

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2011

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• You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

  Wumen Huikai

  Faces, Spirituality, Praise

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• But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Motivational, Inspiring, Fear

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.

  Saint Basil

  Justice, Abortion, Fetus

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• That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.

  P. C. Hodgell

  Faith, Clever, Truth

  P.C. Hodgell (2014). “The Sea of Time”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

  Edmond Taylor

  War, Europe, Mind

  Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Reality, World Love

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• Man is not made for defeat.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Perseverance, Self Esteem

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

  William Blake

  Race, Poetry, Proportion

  Jerusalem "To the Public" plate 1 (1815)

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• It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

  Imran Khan

  Deep Thought, Defeat, Politician

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• Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

  Seneca the Younger

  History, World, Matter

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• Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

  Jacques Monod

  Fate, Science, Men

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• I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labors of love, nurture, friendship, and barter to gift economies and different kinds of exchanges, not just one alternate model but a whole host of other ways in which we engage with each other and with the world that aren't financial and debt-based.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Debt, Goes On

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Night, Mind

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Home, Humor

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• The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware.

  Herb Goldberg

  Powerful, Struggle, Self

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• As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

  John Mills

  Betrayal, Panic, Has Beens

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• I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

  George Clooney

  Roles, Comment, Qualified

  "George Clooney Says He “Destroyed” The Role Of Batman, Weighs In On Ben Affleck’s Casting" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

  Rupert Grint

  Book, Thinking, Fans

  Interview with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2002.

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• History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

  Carl Sagan

  Truth, Ignorance, People

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• I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

  Rita Hayworth

  Thinking, Clothes, Elegance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

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