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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill 5.0000 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
"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
"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction." Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)." Stephen Jay Gould 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power." William Henry Harrison 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them." Herman Hesse 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it." Vernon Howard 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good." Lyndon Baines Johnson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." Arthur Koestler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone." Margaret Mead 5.0000 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
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm 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
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin." Aesop 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." Abraham Lincoln 4.8276 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity." Fritjof Capra 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)" Marcius Porcius Cato 4.7391 average rating Rate this Quote
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Douglas Bradbury 4.7308 average rating Rate this Quote
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Ernest Miller Hemingway Fritjof Capra George Gordon Byron
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Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Jawaharial Nehru Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Kenneth Galbraith John W(illiam) Gardner Joseph Addison
Kabbalah Lyndon Baines Johnson Marcius Porcius Cato
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Marquis de Sade Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Millicent Hammond Fenwick
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