Destroying Quotes - Page 28

• You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Freedom, Eagles, Long

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.86, Penguin

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• I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Girl, Order, Years

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.354, Penguin

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• And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

  Joss Whedon

  Needs, World, Way

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• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people.

  Bill Moyers

  Party, Class, Two

  Source: progressive.org

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• The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.

  Theodore Schroeder

  Christian, Atheism, Mormonism

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• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Important, Prejudice

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• My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others. I'm not satisfied with the state of humanity. If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.

  Alan Bishop

  Art, Skulls, Challenges

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• Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

  Devon Monk

  Rocks, House, Hey

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.111, Penguin

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• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

  Frederick Buechner

  Destroying Me, Doubt, Would Be

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental.

  Sam Lamott

  Son, Mad, Environmental

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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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. We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are. It's easy to put them aside, and the media don't talk about them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eye, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.salon.com

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• What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, People, Kind

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• We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mean, Feelings, Skins

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• Common sense dictates that a trace gas needed for life on the planet would not be the cause for destroying life on the planet. Common sense dictates that what has happened before without man can happen again with man. Common sense would dictate that you not believe me, or any one else, but go look for YOURSELF.

  Joe Bastardi

  Believe, Men, Common Sense

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• We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.

  John Kasich

  Country, Jobs, Children

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  California, World, Public Education

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• What is it that we need to do to explain to the public exactly is what is happening? We are destroying our precious water resources at this alarming rate, and again, why? When we have so many viable alternatives? "Oh,alternative power is too expensive, what about the jobs" - this is dinosaur thinking.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Thinking, Exactly Is

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• Economy is so riddled with corporate welfare and anti-competitive regulations, anti-innovation regulations. Regulations that are destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged, which is creating this two-tiered system we're headed for which has which is destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged and creating welfare for the wealthy.

  Charles Koch

  Opportunity, Two, Creating

  "Full interview: Charles Koch". "Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. October 21, 2015.

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• The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Thinking, Animal

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.20, Crown Forum

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• One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Nice, Struggle

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

  Michelle Malkin

  Summer, Flames, Obamacare

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• We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

  Lyall Watson

  Silence, Trying, Succeed

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• In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.

  Roger Caillois

  Running, Stress, Reality

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