Destroyed Quotes - Page 39

• The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Ecosystems, People

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• 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Jail, Facts

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Wall, Oil

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• With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

  Simone Weil

  Teamwork, Taken, Sorrow

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.21, Routledge

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• There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Legends, Ancient

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• I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Matter, Juxtaposition, Deals

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.225, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Men, Wife

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

  Georges Bataille

  Needs, Passionate

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

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• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Energy

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• When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Powerful, Joy, Soul

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  Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Truth, People

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• Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

  Wendell Berry

  Ignorance, Men, Praise

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

  Richard Bach

  Friendship, Thinking, Space

  "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". Book by Richard Bach, 1970.

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, People, Needs

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• La heradera del dia destruida. (The heiress of the destroyed day.)

  Pablo Neruda

  Heiress

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• But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

  Jacques Lacan

  Way, Symbolic

  Jacques Lacan (2004). “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, p.75, Karnac Books

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• Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Claims

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, Volume 1. Notes to Chapter 7, Note 4, 1945.

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• But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

  John Steinbeck

  Unique, Eden, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hipster, Night, Mind

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• What came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there was never a beforethis nor will there be an afternow. I am accepting. This is not a thing to be solved, or conquered, or destroyed. It is. I am. We are. We conjugate together in darkness, plotting against each other, the Labyrinth to eat me and I to eat it, each to swallow the hard, black opium of the other. We hold orange petals beneath our tongues and seethe. It has always been so. It grinds against me and I bite into its skin.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Thinking, Orange, Darkness

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• In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

  John Green

  Crush, Hurt, Two

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

  Sheri Reynolds

  Energy, Shapes, Physics

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• That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

  William Gaddis

  Self, Enemy, Age

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• Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

  John Steinbeck

  Brother, Men, Hands

  "East of Eden".

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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