“Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.” PeopleSmartMarketingDestroyedDumbSmart PeopleDumb People Author:Paula Scher
“Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.” CountryBigsCoursesSoundPoorNicePlansOpeningProducersDestroyedTaxpayersWheatColombiaPoor CountriesAgribusiness Author:Noam Chomsky
“I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.” MeanSaidProblemBearsWeaponsMassDestructionFinancialDestroyedRequirementsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Warren Buffett
“The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.” FactsGovernmentNextIraqDestroyedIranTargetAfghanistanSyriaNatoAmerican Government Author:Mairead Corrigan
“The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentEnvironmentAirEatingDestroyedBreathingGet Away Author:Bette Midler
“After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure.” PeopleWorldHeartAmericaBlackMoralPressureThreatDestroyedBlack PeopleInitiativeUnclesUncle Sam Author:Malcolm X
“History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!” PeopleMenFactsLyingWhiteRecordsFailingStupidResearchDevilRewardsFinalsProofDestroyedInstanceWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.” MenWellsFallWhiteKnowingReadyDestroyedTemplesWhite ManRubbleSamson Author:Malcolm X
“Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.” IfsStillsHouseDestroyedSparksPowderKegs Author:Malcolm X
“The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.” MenWhiteDevilDestroyedWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.” SometimesStrikesTerroristDestroyedSyriaRepercussions Author:Bashar al-Assad
“It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and so on. Right after that, the anti-immigration law was passed that remained in place until the 1960s.” PeopleWorldFirstsWarLawSeriousIndependentPressesUnionsImmigrationDestroyedPostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War I1960sRepressionWilsonImmigration Laws Author:Noam Chomsky
“The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere.” DestructionArmyResponsibleDestroyedCollectivesCommunistElsewhereAnarchistCatalonia Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.” IfsGovernmentFightingInterestingOpinionSupportCrazyMajorsArmyNotionDestroyedAlternativesItalianParticipationSpainProposalAnarchistFormationFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be ruling Spain to this day because that's the institution that held them together. The institute that gave them the only hope was their church. This is why we are so depressed because the institutions of hope that would cause fulfillment amongst us has either been destroyed or laughed at.” IfsStillsWould BeTogetherCausesChurchCatholicInstitutionsDestroyedFulfillmentThis DayLaughedSpainRulingCatholic ChurchInstitute Author:John Henrik Clarke
“After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.” StillsStatesLostIndependentTradeSlaveWestSouthIslamWesternDestroyedSpainPreySlave TradeWest Africa Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.” ThinkingHas BeensSoulPhilosophyBodyHouseStrongImaginationForeverBuddhismElementsDestroyedEnlightenedLinkedStrainReborn Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.” IfsTwoCountryStatesDoneEyeAmericaValuesSupportSolutionsIsraelDestroyedBeing TrueOther Countries Author:John F. Kerry
“I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system.” DestroyedImmuneImmune SystemChemotherapyLeukemia Author:Eric Reeves
“If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.” IfsHas BeensWarAmericaFightingDestroyedNazi Author:Gaspar Noe
“[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.” WantedAirUnionsStrikesDestroyedHatedControllers Author:Noam Chomsky
“[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.” CareCompanyRichStandingCompetitionDestroyedJohn D Rockefeller Author:Ida Tarbell
“We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.” YearsHumansMayHas BeensIdeasMatterBigsLastsOur LivesOceanYears AgoDestroyedAssetsResilient Author:Sylvia Earle
“That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed millions, but it didn't destroy everybody and it didn't destroy the inner lives of all the people who experienced it.” PeopleThinkingMadeMillionsSlaveryDestroyedMade ItAfrican AmericanAdjustmentInner LifeAmerican Life Author:John Edgar Wideman
“Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.” MeanLongHas BeensBodyYoungDiesWishPerfectFireIllnessDestroyedBurningConsumedMy WishBurning Fire Author:Laura Huxley
“I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.” WayHomeGovernmentMilitaryBuildingMaterialsAreasStructureWestDestroyedEmploymentGoodsPalestinianIsraeliGazaBuilding Materials Author:Judith Butler
“Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.” IfsBelieveStillsPartyFlowDemocraticDon't BelieveFolksDestroyedHeightDemocratic PartyElevating Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.” NeedsKindLastsBlackCommunityFourPolicyMassRacismBuiltDecadesDestroyedFallenManifestationBrownNeed A ChangeIncarcerationBlack CommunityMass Incarceration Author:John Legend
“I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.” PeopleBelieveLittlesBookFoundI BelieveMemoriesCitiesTakenAliveI Believe InTreasureDestroyedTemplesAttachmentOur MemoriesJerusalemCoughing Author:Elie Wiesel
“Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and oh they were going to destroy him, and just look how thoroughly they destroyed him! No one reads Salinger anymore!” LooksKindMeanGuyIntellectualDestroyedMaryReally MeanMcdonaldsSalingerDwight Author:Whit Stillman
“I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard to say. Maybe we can just agree that money killed country music.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensCountryHardAgreeRapDestroyedEaglesCrossover Author:John Doe
“Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.” MembersThreatCongressDestroyedIsraeli Author:David Duke
“Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.” WorldBeliefIssuesEssentialsGoodnessPaperDestroyedBullshitBeauty Of The World Author:Zadie Smith
“Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular, the history curriculum. Breitbart has a story on how this has happened. As the left appeases Muslims, public schools are teaching students to hate America.” MindHas BeensTwoStoriesSchoolAmericaHateLeftGenerationsHappenedTeachingStudentsParticularDestroyedPublic SchoolEducation SystemCurriculumPublic EducationAppeaseTeaching Students Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class. Trump has blown all of that out the window. As such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained - the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you - are all out the window where Trump is concerned. And therefore the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.” PeopleWayAcceptingClassPlayerMediaTrumpRepublicanEqualNormalConcernedWindowAgreeDemocratFactorsDestroyedControlledEstablishmentRuling Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I certainly wouldn't stand for policies that are gonna end up destroying America, this special place, because once this special place is destroyed and is no longer special, then where is everybody gonna go?” EndsAmericaSpecialPolicyDestroyedDestroyingSpecial Places Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We're supposed to forget whatever happened in the past because 9/11 is where history begins. Okay, since 2001, how many wars have been started, how many countries have been destroyed? So now ISIS is the new evil - but how did that evil begin? Is it more evil to do what ISIS is doing, which is to go around massacring people - mainly, but not only, Shi'a - slitting throats? By the way, the US-backed militias are doing similar things, except they don't show beheadings of white folks on TV.” PeopleWayHas BeensWarCountryShowsPastEvilWhiteForgetHappenedTvsOkayFolksDestroyedThroatIsisMilitia Author:Arundhati Roy
“There is not a single person in the media today that could wear Dr. Benjamin Carson's uniform, whatever uniform he puts on in a day, a business suit, if it's surgical scrubs, there's not a single member of the media that could do anything close to what Ben Carson has done with his life. But he gets - and he's not the only one - ripped to shreds, denigrated, destroyed, and for what? He holds to traditional values. He believes in morality. He is just a decent guy and he ends up a target for destruction. And he's not the only one.” IfsBelievePersonsEndsDoneTodayGuyValuesMediaMoralityMembersDestructionTraditionalDestroyedSuitsDecentTargetUniformsDrsRippedSingle PersonTraditional ValuesBen CarsonMedia TodayDecent Guys Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.” CareDestructionDestroyedHealth CareRuinedObamacareHealth Care System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.” ThinkingWayHas BeensTwoAmericaNationsViolenceBloodProtectProjectsWeaponsIndiaClimateClimate ChangeNuclearDestroyedFranceGermanyBritainAustraliaNuclear WeaponsPakistanAnnihilationBelgiumGreat NationsIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!” Has BeensHardInterestingCitiesIndustryOilPunishmentDestroyedFloodVery InterestingLouisianaPulpitOil Industry Author:Margaret Atwood
“My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensMomentsShowsCertainAcceptingRolesEvidenceBuiltDestroyedTheme Author:Michel Foucault
“Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects of market forces because they don't want everything destroyed.” WantSelfStrongForceClassEffectsProtectCapitalismDestroyedDestructiveInterventionSelf Destruct Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.” ThinkingHas BeensForceEffortPeriodsCorruptionSocialismDestroyedCombinationInternalsExternal Forces Author:Noam Chomsky
“The rise of what's called Islamic fundamentalism is to a significant extent a result of the collapse of secular nationalist alternatives which were either discredited internally or destroyed, leaving few other options. Something like that may be true of American society.” MayResultsLeavingSignificantDestroyedBeing TrueAlternativesIslamicCollapseSecularFundamentalismAmerican SocietyIslamic Fundamentalism Author:Noam Chomsky
“Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense, because they presumably want to see it destroyed in a cosmic battle at Armageddon, after which all the proper souls will ascend to heaven - or so I understand, again, not from close reading.” WantSoulChristianReadingHeavenSupportBattleElementsIsraelDestroyedOddStrongestCosmicComponentsFundamentalistArmageddonClose Reading Author:Noam Chomsky
“Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was the war on South Vietnam which destroyed South Vietnam's rural society. The South was devastated. But now anyone who opposed this atrocity is regarded as having defended North Vietnam. And that's part of the effort to present the war as if it were a war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam with the United States helping the South. Of course it's fabrication. But it's "official truth" now.” IfsWarStatesHelpingCoursesUnitedEffortUnited StatesSouthDestroyedOfficialsVietnamAtrocitiesDevastatedFabrication Author:Noam Chomsky
“The first time I played against Seattle was the only time I felt destroyed. Vin Baker just manhandled me. The whole thing, their double teams, their movement, everything.” FirstsWholeFeltTeamMovementFirst TimeDestroyedOnly TimeSeattleBakers Author:Tim Duncan
“I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryCoupleTerribleNeighborConclusionDestroyedDisagreeDictatorSaddamHussein Author:Colin Powell
“I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as having to do with African-Americans and being in debt, and all the issues like crime and bad housing. But what happened is that when globalization took place, following World War II, Detroit's role as the center and the symbol of industrialization was destroyed. It wasn't because we had black citizens mainly or a black mayor; it was because the world was changing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarBlackCitiesRolesIssuesHappenedCrimeCitizensHappeningsBiggerFollowingDebtDestroyedSymbolsAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiDeclineWorld War IGlobalizationHousingMayorsDetroitIndustrialization Author:Grace Lee Boggs