Destroyed Quotes - Page 26

• The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

  Don DeLillo

  Office, World, Safe

  "Acclaimed writer DeLillo gives rare reading in McCosh 50". The Daily Princetonian Interview,

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• Nothing is born, nothing is destroyed. Away with you dualism, your likes and dislikes. Every single thing is just One Mind. When you have perceived this, you will have mounted the Chariot of the Buddhas.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Likes And Dislikes, Mind, Born

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• Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That's an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?

  David Attenborough

  Running, Clever, Numbers

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• There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

  Martin Luther

  Spiritual, Soul, Earth

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• The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Kings, Omnipotence, America

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• If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

  T. S. Eliot

  Religious, Example, Found

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ‎Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. If you feed, if you nourish attachment, love will be destroyed; If you feed and nourish love, attachment will fall away by itself. They are not one; they are two separate entities, and antagonistic to each other.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Attachment, Ideas

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  William Borah

  Passion, Sleep, Fire

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• Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  World, Satisfaction, Spiteful

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• When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Energy, Way, Failing

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Names, People, Liberty

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• All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Blue, Ohio

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• Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Believe, Rights

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

  Anne Frank

  Crazy, People, World

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

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• Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Mean, Thinking, Simple

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, People, Magic

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• And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Reflection, Effort

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Illustrated By Arthur Rackham”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, War, Thinking

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• Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.

  T. J. Clark

  Reality, Two, Wish

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• Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Should, Moved, Dislike

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• Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Fall, Stronger

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• (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Thug, Years, Cities

  "White House faces new racial crisis in Baltimore" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

  Kirby Wright

  Love, Hopeful, Tough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Reality, Ideas, Space

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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