Destroying Quotes - Page 27

• The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

  Steve Fowler

  Mother, Honesty, Father

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• The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Animal, Wind

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

  Darren Shan

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

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• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Night, Destiny

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

  Charles Bukowski

  Destroying Yourself

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.73, Canongate Books

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• Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Pain, Creating, Energy

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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  The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Hands, World

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• I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Heart, Greatest Fear

  Interview with Nirmal Kumar Bose on 9-10 November 1934, Modern Review, p. 412, October 1935.

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• When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

  Rick Perry

  Germany, Looks, World

  Source: stream.org

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• For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Names, Unity, Instance

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I got a letter one day from somebody saying, `You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper [The Voice]?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, `You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.

  Nat Hentoff

  Son, Years, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

  Nat Hentoff

  Fire, Two, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

  Arundhati Roy

  Past, Done, Us History

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• If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Black, Growing

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". Interview with DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee, www.finalcall.com. May 24, 2016.

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• She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.

  Linda Howard

  War, Wine, Past

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

  James Frey

  Running, Want, I Can

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.117, Anchor

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• You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cities, Mind, Together

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Extras”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.

  Noam Chomsky

  Use, Earth, Environment

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Focus, United States

  "ABC Grills Trump With Tough Questions, Provided Softballs for Dem Candidates in 2007". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 19, 2011.

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• You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Way, Destruction, Extras

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• ...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.

  John Gardner

  Dream, Winning, Years

  John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, May, Covenant

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• By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Possession, Order Of The Phoenix

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  Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Law, Justice, May

  "Building a Life of Value: Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us". Book by Jason Merchey, 2005.

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• It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

  Alan Paton

  Goes On, Cry The Beloved Country, Family Life

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