#destroy

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#control #destroy #enough #even #ignorance

John 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

#bombing #carefully #century #dalton #destroyed

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#destroy #dictum #drive #first #him

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#career #destroy #embarrass #failed #figured

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#bitter end #destroyed #economy #end #fun

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#destroying #effective #fear #i #i believe

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#burned #business #consequently #destroying #doing

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#another #appreciate #artistic #book #cash

Love, this is worse than junk food ; where you must eat it three times a day during four months to screw up your health. Love, it only takes a second to destroy you. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#food #health #junk #love #month