A Quote by Soe Hok Gie

To be a human is to be destroyed.

Soe Hok Gie

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Destroyed Human

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Soe Hok Gie
Chinese - Activist
December 17, 1942 - December 16, 1969

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

William Blake

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

Olive Schreiner

There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

Chester Himes

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

D. A. Carson

Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford's was.

Roger Scruton

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Brigitte Nielsen

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

John le Carre

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

Baruch Spinoza

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Emil Cioran

As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.