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"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." (John) Michael Crichton 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln 4.5758 average rating Rate this Quote
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" Abraham Lincoln 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." Abraham Lincoln 4.8276 average rating Rate this Quote
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin." Aesop 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." Aesop 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction." Aesop 4.3750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes." Alexander Hamilton 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day." Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." Arthur Koestler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli Rate this Quote
"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him." Buddha 4.5455 average rating Rate this Quote
"Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it." Claire Huchet Bishop 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first call 'promising'." Cyril Connolley 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'" Danielle Donoho 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one." Edward Keating 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate." Erich Fromm 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." Ernest Miller Hemingway 4.6596 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity." Fritjof Capra 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Arthur Koestler Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Buddha Claire Huchet Bishop Cyril Connolley
Danielle Donoho Edward Keating Erich Fromm
Ernest Miller Hemingway Fritjof Capra George Gordon Byron
Hammurabi Herman Hesse Isaac Asimov
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Jawaharial Nehru Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Kenneth Galbraith John W(illiam) Gardner Joseph Addison
Kabbalah Lyndon Baines Johnson Marcius Porcius Cato
Marcus Tullius Cicero Margaret Mead Marguerite de Valois
Marquis de Sade Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Millicent Hammond Fenwick
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Ray Douglas Bradbury Reinhold Niebuhr
Richard Adams Richard Milhouse Nixon Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Stephen Jay Gould Stephen R. Covey Vernon Howard
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