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"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America." Lyndon Baines Johnson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." Richard Milhouse Nixon 3.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" Abraham Lincoln 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it." Claire Huchet Bishop 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Ernest Miller Hemingway 4.6596 average rating Rate this Quote
"Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)" Marcius Porcius Cato 4.7391 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country." George Gordon Byron 2.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln 4.5758 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war." Isaac Asimov 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin." Aesop 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect." Stephen R. Covey 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?" Marcus Tullius Cicero 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed." Reinhold Niebuhr 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise." William Blake 4.8837 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 2.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye." Hammurabi 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." William Adams 4.4375 average rating Rate this Quote
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
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John Kenneth Galbraith John W(illiam) Gardner Joseph Addison
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