Destroying Quotes - Page 4

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beautiful, Jobs, Thinking

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• We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Superstitions

  "On Divination". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, People, Next

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• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  Rajneesh

  Dogma, Creeds, Cult

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• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Limited Resources

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Karl Kraus

  Culture, Attention, Literature

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me

  Tracey Emin

  Destroying Me, Dancing

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• Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Media, Patterns

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• Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

  John Jay Hooker

  Democracy, Trying, Cost

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• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  Ralph Steadman

  Selfish, Destroying Ourselves, Force

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Always Trying

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• Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Wine, Mean

  "Tremendous Trifles. Secret of a Train". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Eye, Self, Realizing

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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• Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Intellectual, Friendly

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• Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Inferiority, Males

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Environmental, Needs

  "Summit Says: Instant Interviews". www.dailysummit.net. August 26, 2002.

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• There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

  Colin Hay

  Character, Soul, Lines

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

  R. D. Laing

  Love, Violence, Destroying Ourselves

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 3

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• We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Community, Research

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• It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

  Alan Keyes

  Military, Agendas, Accepting

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• In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

  Heather Donahue

  Mean, Self, People

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• Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Rights, Long

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• We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Airports, Baghdad, Force

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