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Quotes About Destroy

He'd grown up a criminal. A man who hurt others. A man who destroyed the lives of others. A man who killed. That was who and what he was, and no matter how hard he tried to climb out of that world of blood and treachery, there was no getting out. Never. He didn't have much to live for.
~ Christine Feehan
if there's anything missionaries do well, it's seek out and destroy fun).
~ Christopher Moore
Privately owned, of course, with no nonsense about nationalization—for has not the Führer said that Bolshevism is the Public Enemy Number One? Isn't it fear of Bolshevism that is enabling Germany to undermine and destroy the governments of every country in Europe?
~ Upton Sinclair
Let us fight. Let us fight, but let us discriminate. The characteristic of truth is never to be extreme. What need has it to exaggerate? There is that which needs to be destroyed, and there is that which simply needs to be elucidated and examined. Well intentioned and serious examination, that is a force to be reckoned with! Let us not put to the torch where it is enough to bring light.
~ Victor Hugo
What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs!
~ Victor Hugo
and Umétsu remembered that goblins were wont to assume feminine shapes after dark, in order to deceive and destroy men.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.
~ Cassandra Clare
To love is to destroy and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.
~ Cassandra Clare
To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.
~ Cassandra Clare
To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be destroyed
~ Cassandra Clare
there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.
~ Cassandra Clare
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
~ Gertrude Stein
Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly insisted that the National Security Council specify as "the basic objective of our national security policies: maintaining the security of the United States and the vitality of its fundamental values and institutions." To achieve the former without securing the latter, he warned, would be to "destroy what we are attempting to defend.
~ Gideon Rose
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.
~ Glenn Beck
Remember whenever money is involved, it brings out horrific things in people. It has the power not only to split families apart, but to destroy the foundations of one's life. Never lose site of this. Take time and be certain you place your trust in those whose interests and goals mirror your own.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Guard against this tendency of adjectives to march in pairs. They love to do it but it destroys all finer cadences.
~ Edith Foster Flint, c.1904
The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.
~ James Baldwin
The author must destroy our myths and give us back our histories, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities.
~ James Baldwin
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.
~ Newt Gingrich
The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
~ Noam Chomsky
Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.
~ Keith O'Brien
For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
~ Adolf Hitler
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
~ Norman Mailer
The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
~ George Amos Dorsey