Quotes About Destroy

Remember your Plato, Maeve. 'If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy his reasoning…

With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.

With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.

giving up his capacity to love and hate, to create and destroy. At the end of history, Kojève predicted, all the world will become America—a gloomy fate by any French measure.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

By the use of the language of sorrow I had for the time being obliterated my sorrow—so powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

I myself teach no one, knowing I would make my students stronger to destroy me. I advise you to follow the same course.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

We need to force Iran to dismantle its nuclear program entirely or face the threat of military force to destroy that program.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

You have it in your power greatly to promote my happiness by your good conduct, and greatly to destroy my comfort and peace by ill conduct.

Try not to trip," she added. "We don't have time for a concussion today." I groaned. That would be just like me - ruin everything, destroy the world, in a moment of klutziness.

The wicked stepmother, which is the ego, can put the Sleeping Beauty or Christ within us to sleep, but she can never destroy it. What is created by God is indestructible.

Wounded children become wounded adults, and wounded adults can destroy the world.

If being modern means having the understanding and will to oppose the passions of collective life that can at any time emerge to disgrace us and, now, even to destroy us, then one great type of modern man is surely Dietrich Bonhoeffer — more particularly, Pastor Bonhoeffer in his pulpit, Pastor Bonhoeffer at his prayers.

When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense?" The

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear.

The King's response was unequivocal: any proposition which tended to destroy the maxim that employees of the State must be members of the Established Church could not be discussed.

Actions which produce [virtue] are those which increase it, and also, if differently performed, destroy it.

She should not have been doing the cooking! said Mrs. Wright strongly. Well of course there is the root of our trouble. Certainly she should not have been doing the cooking if her intention was to destroy all of us with poison. We would have been blindly unselfish to encourage her to cook under such circumstances.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will." Sigmund Freud wrote to Albert Einstein