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Destroying Quotes (page 17)

There's terrible evil in the world."It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. Richard Adams
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. Karl Popper
The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is that God's distinctive greatness is revealed precisely in powerlessness. That in the long run, the strength of history is precisely in those who love, which is to say, in a strength that, properly speaking, cannot be measured according to categories of power. So in order to show who he is, God consciously revealed himself in the powerlessness of Nazareth and Golgotha. Thus, it is not the one... Joseph Ratzinger
Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded. Paulo Coelho
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... Ray Bradbury
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. George Orwell
So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN. Lady Gaga
E. E. Cummings quote: "when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of..."
when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because. E. E. Cummings
William Shakespeare quote: "WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS..."
WILL YOU YIELD AND THIS AVOID, OR GUILTY IN DEFENSE BE THUS DESTROY'D? William Shakespeare
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? Virginia Woolf
Thomas Harris quote: "The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with..."
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. Thomas Harris
John Milton quote: "but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself"
but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself John Milton
A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of a novel, however, is isolated, more so than any other reader(For even the reader of a poem is ready to utter the words, for the benet of the listener.) In this solitude of his, the reader ofa novel seizes upon his material more jealously than anyone else. He is ready to make it completely his own, to devour it, as it were. Indeed, he destroys, he swallows up the... Walter Benjamin
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past torment. Theodor Adorno
Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether. David Herbert Lawrence

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