Quotes with destruction

Quotes 61 till 80 of 88.

  • Sean O'Casey The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • William Hazlitt The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Armstrong Williams The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Mikhail Bakunin The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Brit Hume The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bill Clinton The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
    Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Dorothea Brande There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Adolf Hitler Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Walter Lippmann Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: ''I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.''
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • John Abbott War is the science of destruction.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bob Graham We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Carl Levin We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Aesop We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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