Destroyers Quotes

• You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

  Anais Nin

  Sister In Law, Giving, Negativity

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• Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Whatever Happens Happens, Perceive, Creator

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• Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Nihilism, Way, Middle

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• There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

  Rick Remender

  Goal, People, Hatred

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• Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Desire, Creator

  "Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart". Book by Ram Dass, 2010.

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• For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

  Nido R Qubein

  People, Challenges, Threatening

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN.

  Lady Gaga

  Greatness, Broken, Trying

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jun 07, 2010

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• United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

  J.R. Ward

  Dark, Hands, Two

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.2409, Penguin

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• People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

  John Ruskin

  Class, Two, People

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• Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Death, Sister In Law, Dying

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• The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood... In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.

  Cassius Dio

  Men, Rome, Blood

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• Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Way, Objectivism

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.20, Penguin

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• The Destroyer has arrived and you are he.

  J.R. Ward

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.399, Penguin

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Death, Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Criticism

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• The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Running, Kings, Women

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• I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

  Tamora Pierce

  Class, Two, People

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “Melting Stones”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Black, Society

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• The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Poetry, Elements, Saturn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.365

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• Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.

  Jack White

  Home, Creativity, Fighting

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• A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build

  Maurice Samuel

  Two, Forever, Tolerance

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Jobs, Philosophical, Cutting

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• The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

  Richard Hough

  Night, Naval Warfare, Numbers

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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