Destroyed Quotes - Page 37

• If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Order, Organization

  1957 Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

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• Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Men, Behaviour, Institutions

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• I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

  Pope Francis

  Drug, Trying, Vices

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Military, Ruins, Subjects

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• What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

  Henry George

  Civilization, Distribution Of Wealth, Prosperity

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Reality, Gone, World

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• Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

  David Hackworth

  Cancer, Fighting, Cells

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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Nuts, Bridges

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• Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Years, Different

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Black, Information

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• I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'

  Simon Hoggart

  Past, Play, Ipads

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the new Christmas traditions" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2012.

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• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  LaToya Jackson

  Book, Healing, Writing

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• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Life And Love, Love Is

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.216

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• From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Ozone, Order

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

  Stephen King

  Family, Jobs, Humor

  "Storm of the Century". Drama, Fantasy, Horror, 1999.

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• And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

  Allen Klein

  World, Financial, Landmarks

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  Ed Koch

  Jail, Worry, Risk

  "I'm Right, You're Wrong: Ed Koch Vs. Al D'Amato". nymag.com.

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• If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Religious, Fall, Hands

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• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  Wangari Maathai

  Erosion, Issues, Logging

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Hustle

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• Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Literature, Prophet, Unarmed

  "The Prince".

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• Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Political

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• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  Maimonides

  Evil, Balance, Doe

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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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