(477 quotes found)
“Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Carthage must be destroyed.”
Cato The Elder
“Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.”
Les Brown (musician)
“All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? / The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.”
Bible
“Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.”
“Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Over the twenty two years that I have lived here, I have watched forestry operations open the canopy destroying moist forest understorey,”
Sandra Taylor