D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/”
“Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.”
“Destroy your life; then put it back together.You'll get great material, meet some fascinating characters and – side benefit – the skills you develop will give you greater compassion, insight and range with the people you create on the page – or run into off of it.”
“Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.”
“Destroy yourself. Be on the edge of it all, and right before that weird place tells you to let it go completely; let the energy go in all directions. Falling on your face will never be fun, or purposeful. You don't own energy; you own the inertia!”
“Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.”
“Destroy yourself, if you don't know!”
Source: In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems
“Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.”
“Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.”
“Destroying art is practice for destroying people.”
Source: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“Destroying family and its values by devaluing the currency and forcing both parents to work to pay bills and spending less time with their children will create a system where everyone will depend more on government and less on family. Welcome to modern day America!”
“Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal”
“Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.”
Source: The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower
“Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.”
Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
“Destroying someone's life could be remarkably cathartic.”
Source: Thistles
“Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.”
“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.”
Source: A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth
“Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we are lost in the process. What could be something that can provide us a transversal political sense of belonging? At the end of the day, without an alternative we end up with populism in the name of very narrow identities.”
“Destroying the nukes mean nothing. Destroy one, another will be built in a matter of months. We have to nuke the hate in us first, so that we no longer feel the need for nukes against our own kind.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Destroying what someone else cherished never brought back what you yourself had lost. All it did was spread grief like a contagion”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.”
“Destroying your mirrors hides your ugliness or facial blemishes from only you.”
“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”
“Destroying yourself with ignorance
is more honorable than
destroying yourself with
a lack of empathy.”
“Destruction after all is a form of creation.”
Source: The Portable Graham Greene
“Destruction and suffering are the school of social thought.”
Source: The Captive Mind
“Destruction CAN be beautiful!”
“Destruction can be looked at as rejuvenation.”
“Destruction doesn't always have to be a bad thing.”
Source: Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
“Destruction doesn’t count. One can always create again.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease
“Destruction is a man's will,
Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will,
Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. :)”
“Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.”
“Destruction is also creation.”
“Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.”
“Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian”
“Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation.”
“destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.”
“Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. [...]
The building of the true and beautiful means the destruction of the good enough.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“Destruction is knocking at the door, and you and I must understand our role in these last days.”
Source: Summoning the Demon: AI Aliens & the Antichrist
“Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.”
Source: Hawksmoor
“Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Destruction is the process of creating space for something that could not be created until that which occupied that space was removed. And if we cannot see past the carnage of the removal in order to see the possibilities in the space, what was destroyed truly was destroyed.”
“Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.”
“destruction is ultimately self-destruction.”
“Destruction of our Earth - created by billions of years of evolutionary process - with our stupidity of the last few centuries is a candidate to be one of the most tragicomic scenes in the history of this universe!”
“Destruction of privacy via surveillance programs engineered by Great Powers widens the existing power imbalance between the ruling elite and everyone else. Its impact on global south will be colossal.”