#destroying

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. ↗

— Donald Trump

#big #china #countries #destroying #focus

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#bent #civilization #destroying #fighting #group

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. ↗

— Olivia De Havilland

#business #crushing #destroying #human #human being

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. ↗

— Keith Henson

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