Destroying Quotes - Page 24

• The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).

  James H. Cone

  Mean, Ghetto, White

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

  William Maxwell

  Soul, Cameras, Lenses

  William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.77, Random House

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• PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.

  Chalene Johnson

  Giving, Weight, Body

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• If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst.

  Esther Vilar

  Jobs, Sleep, Responsibility

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• The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.

  Kenneth Goff

  Christian, Son, Civilization

  "Still 'Tis Our Ancient Foe". Book by Kenneth Goff, 1962.

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• A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

  Dick Motta

  Sports, Stars, Motivation

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Self

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• Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.

  Charlotte Laws

  Animal, Abuse, Tools

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• We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Important, World

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• Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Vegetarianism, Ideas

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, School, Thinking

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• Although I claim to be a Christian, I live at a moment in time when the Christian faith is being defined by fundamentalists who have dishonored Christ and are in the process of destroying His church. I refuse to wear the 'Christian' label without redefining it.

  Mel White

  Christian, Church, Labels

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• If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying - for however long it takes - until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he is averting their evil works that so plague God's children and mankind in general. When he maims and kills cultists and theological liberals, he prevents the spread of heretical doctrine that damns souls...God's judgment - not his favor - leads the world to righteousness. We should petition God's judgment on the wicked because judgment is a form of grace.

  Andrew Sandlin

  Religious, Children, People

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• Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

  Henry Cavill

  Disappointment, Regret, Actors

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• The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cells, Dysfunction, Goal

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.36, Penguin

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• The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

  Tony Robbins

  Minutes, Score

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• How do we get America back to work? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Thinking, Government

  "Video: Ted Cruz Tells The Story Of America". Ted Cruz's speech at 2012 Republican National Convention, hotair.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Simple

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• We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

  Mao Zedong

  World, Study, Building

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.305, China Books

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• Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, School, Childhood

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1969). “Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Art, Philosophy, Way

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• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

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• When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Rivers, Giving, Water

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