#troy

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#destroyed #doing #elbows #era #even

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#become #cars #citizens #competing #destroy

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#colour #colours #constituent #destroyed #each

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred. ↗

— Lance Loud

#broadcasting #destroys #make #matter #private

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. ↗

— Witold Lutoslawski

#cannot #concentrate #destroyed #lifts #music

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#besides #destroyed #friends #here #man

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#flower #heart #heretofore #i #kings

We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#also #apart #being #cannot #caused

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#always #break #care #could #create