142 quotes found
“All are at war with the one who wars against self.”
“Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.”
“to love is to destroy and that to be loved is the one to be destroyed”
“Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.”
“Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.”
“Humans do worse things with money rather than for money.”
“Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.”
“If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the bi...”
“I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.”
“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind...”
“Being a good person has nothing to do with allowing people to destroy you.”
“She sat back, eyeing the flames now leaping upward to lick at the wooden beams of the ceiling. "If this fire gets out of hand, or if the guards take too long to come, you and I may be in a lot of t...”
“The blaze from the trees spreads to tablecloths and crepe paper - a chain reaction so brilliantly spectacular and terrible, I ache to be a part of it...to devour and destroy,then relish in the plun...”
“one worlds poison might be anothers salvation”
“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?Or sells eternity to get a toy?For one sweet grape who will the vine destr...”
“She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.”
“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by ...”
“That is how the European tribes operate, she said, If they can't control it, they destroy it.”
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.”
“When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions”
