#destroyed

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conquered #destroyed #great #itself #until

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#cannot #country #despite #destroyed #fate

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#concerned #could #destroyed #discovery #else

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #buddhas #destroyed #get #had

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#concept #could #destroyed #global #global warming

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bred #club #comedy #comedy club #comics

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#dream #hoping #life #realized #soon

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary