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“Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.”

Way Character Wealth Materials Destruction Abundance

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.”

Character Destruction Prosperity

Book:The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.”

Character Able Strong Attitude Danger Personality Intellectual Weakness Destruction Resolution Discouraged Lukewarm Intellectual Life Strong Person Strong Personality Weakness Of Character

Author:Albert Einstein

“Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order for "rational" is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression.”

Men Reason Character Action Order Force Ignorance Destruction Rational Oppression Irrational Behalf Brutality Thoughts And Actions

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's what I love about playing the character. People are so quick to draw conclusions about who he is. The whole thing about Loki is that he's dancing on this liminal line between redemption and destruction. Just be very careful about drawing conclusions based on what you see.”

People Whole Character Lines Draws Destruction Dancing Careful Drawing Conclusion Redemption Supposition Drawing Conclusions

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”

Character Fall Atheism Destruction Positive Atheism Suspicion Disintegration

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.”

“The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.”

“I mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major piazza that Marvel hasn't even been to before, because it's all about creation and not so much about destruction and forestalling destruction, it's about your mind.”

Mind Mean Character Universe Sides Term Streets Creation Majors Destruction Ancient

Author:Tilda Swinton

“If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.”

Ifs Way Whole Character Europe Destruction Threat Syria Refugee

Author:John F. Kerry

“We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.”

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

Want Humans Character Human Nature Building Destruction Novelists Flaws Imperfection Favourite Defects Flawed Maintenance Hocus Pocus

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.”

Character Feelings Life Is Trouble Destruction Suicide Destructive Worth Living Life Is Worth Living Life Is Not Worth Living

Book:Gesammelte Schriften

Source: Gesammelte Schriften

“I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do.”

People Ifs Ideas Enough Character Helping Would Be Protect Destruction If I Could Pockets

Author:Paul Kingsnorth