Top 1200 Mutually Assured Destruction Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin?

Rest assured I am not an extremist.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.

It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin.

Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Anyone who loves football can also be involved in music; the two aren't mutually exclusive.

There's no man on this earth can even be assured he'll have a next day.

I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

I am a little - I won't say arrogant - self-assured.

There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

It is crazy how people can't understand the concept of comedy and music. It's like they have to be mutually exclusive.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

My security is assured everywhere, and at any moment.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.

In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged that only 20% of the destruction inflicted by his invasion was inflicted on military objectives. Civilian non-combatants, essentially innocents, suffered 80% of the losses.

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.