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Quotes About Destroyed

If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.
~ James Baldwin
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.
~ Emma Bonino
Oddly, none of the chroniclers who describe this 'sack of Rome' seem at all interested in the fact that what was being taken had actually been brought to the city as loot in the first place. And whereas the Romans had destroyed the places from which they took their plunder, not a single building in Rome was destroyed by the Vandals.
~ Terry Jones
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 W. Adorno
At once more social and more self-reliant than their British counterparts, they were men whose dignity had not been destroyed by a culture of dependence.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.
~ Thomas Cahill
Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.
~ Clive Barker
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
As stakeholders run for the exits, market value is destroyed, and with it the flexibility to make strategic decisions.
~ Larry Downes
You obliterated me.
~ Lauren Myracle
When the two thoughts are thus balanced, both thoughts accelerate together (like opposite poles of two magnets attracting one another) and are immediately annihilated and destroyed, creating a magickal THIRD POINT OF TRANSCENDENCE (or Point of Infinite Possibility) at the top point of the triangle.
~ Laurence Galian
Without an impeachment process, presidents could obtain office corruptly and then enjoy the poisonous fruit of their own electoral treachery. Democracy itself might be destroyed.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
The ideas of the past, although half destroyed, being still very powerful, and the ideas which are to replace them being still in process of formation, the modern age represents a period of transition and anarchy.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. Sovereignly indifferent to our feelings, it is deaf to our lamentations. It is for us to endeavour to live with science, since nothing can bring back the illusions it has destroyed.
~ Gustave Le Bon
In the early years, it was my fear that drove my need to understand. i did not want to be destroyed. In fact i wanted to be created.
~ Guy Baldwin
It's one thing to make war for your country, your family, even in pursuit of glory. It's another to believe that the people you fight are embodiments of evil and must be destroyed for that. I want this peninsula back. I want Esperana great again, but I will not pretend that if we smash Al- Rassan and all it has built we are doing the will of any god I know.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
~ Howard Fast
For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party of Trump must be destroyed politically.
~ Steve Schmidt
America is going to be destroyed by Obamacare, so whatever deal is put together must at least reschedule the implementation of Obamacare.
~ Scott Garrett
Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
~ Harry S Truman
We can go without dancing and things a little longer." "Especially since our Great Slipper Scandal quickened the undead and nearly destroyed the palace," said Bramble. "It put us off dancing for at least an hour.
~ Heather Dixon
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
~ Len Wein