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“Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.”

Knows Destruction Seeds Isolation Carrie

Author:Toni Morrison

“Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”

Humans Democracy Destruction Seeds Carrie Organisms

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“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.”

May Has Beens Ideas Force Growth Taken Depends Destruction Essence Foundation Cease Granted Carrie Free Society Taken For Granted

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.”

Knows Government Destruction Seeds Cease Carrie

Author:Frank Herbert

“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.”

Humans Wells Body Dies Politics Causes Born Politician Destruction Carrie Human Body

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.”

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.”

Mind Humans Failing Worst Discipline Destruction Overcoming Seeds Checks Carrie Laziness Antidote Overcoming Fear Rigidity

Author:Anton Myrer

“A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”

Space Deals Destruction Flying Carrie Bullets

Author:Joseph Conrad

“For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.”

Destruction Seeds Carrie Plutocracy

Author:Marvin Gaye

“Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.”

People Shows Born Kings Civilization Destruction Function Seeds Carrie Cycles Republic Decay Millionaire Captured Oppressors Plutocracy

Book:Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events

Source: Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events

“... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.”

Understanding Destruction Threat Violent Carrie Mutual Lack Of Understanding

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn