Destruction Quotes

“We live in a culture where people are more offended b...

“We live in a culture where people are more offended by swear words and middle fingers than they are by famine, warfare and the destruction of our environment.” - Unknown
📅︎ Mar 08
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"Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em ...

"Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." - Ralph Ellison
📅︎ Mar 06
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"Duty does not require any person to submit to the...

"Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way." - Napoleon Hill
📅︎ Feb 20
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Balance every thought with its oppositi...

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion. ...Aleister Crowley
📅︎ Feb 12
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"He who is the cause of some...

"He who is the cause of someone else becoming powerful is the agent of his own destruction."
📅︎ Feb 08
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"There is very little difference between the capacity f...

"There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life."
📅︎ Feb 14
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the h...

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?" -Gandhi
📅︎ Dec 23
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A tree grows with no sound and takes time. ...

A tree grows with no sound and takes time. But it’s cut down with a loud noise when it falls. Destruction makes noise, build in silence.
📅︎ Dec 25
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New growth cannot exist ...

New growth cannot exist without first the destruction of the old. ~ Guru Laghima
📅︎ Dec 29
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War is the work of man. War is destruction of human life. War is death. To remem...

War is the work of man. War is destruction of human life. War is death. To remember the past is to commit oneself to the future. To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war. To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace. - Pope John Paul II
📅︎ Nov 21
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For life is death; multiplic...

For life is death; multiplication is division; good is bad; creation is destruction. ~ K.E
📅︎ Dec 14
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"War is an unequivocally terrible ordeal, a continuous source of suffering,...

"War is an unequivocally terrible ordeal, a continuous source of suffering, destruction and death. Yet it is also a catalyst for change, a restorer of balance and an instigator of advancement - a reset button for a world gone awry."
📅︎ Oct 11
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"I’ve died a thousand deaths, each time reinventing myself brighter, stronger, ...

"I’ve died a thousand deaths, each time reinventing myself brighter, stronger, and purer than before. From the midst of destruction, I became the creator of myself. From the midst of darkness, I became my own source of light." --Cristen Rodgers
📅︎ Oct 15
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Forgiveness means accepting responsibility – not for causing the destruct...

Forgiveness means accepting responsibility – not for causing the destruction, but for cleaning it up. It’s the decision that restoring your own peace is finally a bigger priority than disrupting someone else’s - Heidi Priebe.
📅︎ Jul 28
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"A seed grows with no sound but a tree falls with h...

"A seed grows with no sound but a tree falls with huge noise. Destruction has noise, but creation is quite. This is power of silence... Grow silently. " unknown
📅︎ Jun 25
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"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone....

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction." Cynthia Occelli
📅︎ Jun 10
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“Every act of creation...

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” - Picasso
📅︎ Jun 28
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"The passion for destru...

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion." --Mikhail Bakunin
📅︎ Jul 01
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin o...

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others. - BILL WILSON
📅︎ Mar 12
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Ignorance in any form should never be al...

Ignorance in any form should never be allowed to prosper, for it begets Negligence; the Mother of death and destruction. ~Myself
📅︎ May 03
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"Children are curious ...

"Children are curious to the point of destruction," -Neil deGrasse Tyson
📅︎ Oct 01
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"The man who easily destroys himself,i...

"The man who easily destroys himself,is the one who has never learned to rise from his own destructions" (William Ventura)
📅︎ Feb 09
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"War, it uses humanity's best to do humanity's absolute worst. It takes our strength, courage, ...

"War, it uses humanity's best to do humanity's absolute worst. It takes our strength, courage, resilience, our intelligence and creativity... our heroes.. and in return we get death, destruction, hatred, suffering; it cripples and maims, it crushes the innocent, it leaves ruin in its wake."
📅︎ Mar 08
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not t...

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." —Thomas Jefferson (1809)
📅︎ Feb 01
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"And you tell me over and over and over an...

"And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction." ~Barry McGuire
📅︎ Mar 10
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"For a Star to be born, there is one thing that must ha...

"For a Star to be born, there is one thing that must happen; a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth." - n.t.
📅︎ Oct 07
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"Who is happy unjustly destroying the ...

"Who is happy unjustly destroying the live of others,will be unhappy when his/her destruction arrives" (William Ventura)
📅︎ Nov 10
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“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't dece...

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.” ? Criss Jam
📅︎ Nov 01
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants...

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776)
📅︎ Nov 17
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"Duty does not require any person to submit to th...

"Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way." -Napoleon Hill
📅︎ Sep 27
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"For it is within you, th...

"For it is within you, that both your destruction and deliverance lie." - Epictetus
📅︎ Aug 09
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“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a p...

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman’s tool is values; the bureaucrat’s tool is fear"
📅︎ Sep 18
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"Ever since World War I, superior force is no...

"Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction." - Saul David
📅︎ Jan 30
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Every failed attempt is a...

Every failed attempt is an Experience, but failing to attempt is Self Destruction.
📅︎ May 05
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. ~RACHEL CARSON
📅︎ Mar 12
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"Where there is no freedo...

"Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction." -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
📅︎ Apr 25
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