For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents.
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.
The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.
I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.
TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Obama is a human wrecking ball single-handedly destroying our economy and bankrupting the nation.
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.
A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.
Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
The problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.
I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.
I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.
I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.
You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.
There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
We are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.
Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.
This site uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience.
More info...