Destruction Quotes - Page 33

• A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

  Bobby Seale

  Men, Hands, America

  Bobby Seale (1991). “Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton”, p.162, Black Classic Press

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• In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Family, Home, Race

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• It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Taken, Army, Views

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• Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

  Babs Deal

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others.

  Maren Elwood

  Light, Long, Giving

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• No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

  Lester R. Brown

  Civilization, Support Systems, Growth

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• But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Army, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.93, Modern Library

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• If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Rome, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.42

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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• No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

  Harvey Mackay

  Determination, Opportunity, Service Culture

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  Bayard Rustin

  Israel, Support, Democracy

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• Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion and to work with our alliance is to keep them isolated. I'm just as frustrated as many Americans are that Saddam Hussein still lives. I think we ought to keep the pressure on him. I will tell you this: If we catch him developing weapons of mass destruction in any way, shape or form, I'll deal with that in a way that he won't like.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Frustrated

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• In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Mass Destruction, Long

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.272, Hoover Press

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• Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Religious, Mass Destruction, Iran

  "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

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• To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Scary, Historical

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• From the   5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being   indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the   left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are   scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the   destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,   thrills, and self-indulgence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ideas, Skulls, Battle

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• Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Spiritual, Real, Rain

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• Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense of their Chinese allies and peaceful co-existence with us.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Believe, Peaceful

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

  Stephen Fry

  Civilization, World, Ends

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Two, Safety

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

  Joseph Lowery

  Mass Destruction, America, People

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• Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Organization, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

  W. G. Sebald

  Military, Cities, People

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