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• I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?

  David Sedaris

  Letting Go, Mother, Mean

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• It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children. One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one's mind: this is a temptation one must resist. In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: 'We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours.

  Primo Levi

  Children, Thinking, Race

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• I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Pain, Parenting

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• These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Perfect

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America

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• If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

  Timothy Zahn

  Stars, Use, Want

  Timothy Zahn (2011). “Heir to the Empire: Star Wars Legends: The 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.61, Del Rey

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• Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

  Rollo May

  Artist, Creative, Anxiety

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• It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

  Chris Adrian

  Book, Angel, Grace

  Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

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• A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Weakness, Needs, Tools

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• Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Community, Drug, Tvs

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.37, Vintage

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• From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Anger, Sister In Law

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• In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liars, Sleep, Dust

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Two, Bombers

  "V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, September 1988 – May 1989.

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Arrows, Towers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.656, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am the god Apostolos. The Harbinger of Telikos. The Final Fate of all. Beloved son of Apollymi the Great Destroyer. My will makes the will of the universe. [Apostolos / Acheron Parthenopaeus]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Son, Finals

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• I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

  Julio Cortazar

  Night, Mind, Compass

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.53, Everyman's Library

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• Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

  Oswald Spengler

  Democracy, Intellect, Destroyed

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Writing, People

  "Writing in terms of pleasure". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.

  John Adams

  Cancer, People, Giving

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.43

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• [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Russia, Europe

  Samuel Putnam Waldo, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1823). “Biographical sketches of distinguished American naval heroes in the war of the revolution, between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain: comprising sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble, and Com. Alexander Murray. With incidental allusions to other distinguished characters ...”, p.381

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• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Mother, Peace

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Character

  Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8

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• We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, People, Trying

  "NBC White Paper (The Decision to Drop the Bomb)". Documentary, January 5, 1965.

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• Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Two, Coins, Faces

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• Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?

  Veronica Roth

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