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“Pride goes before destruction.”

Pride Destruction

Book:Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

“Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.”

Has Beens Reason Age Earth Century Pride Balance Ego Mass Destruction Reasonable Collectives Delicate Twentieth Century Missiles Mass Destruction Neurosis Age Of Reason

Author:Marion Woodman

“Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”

May Fall Pride Destruction Jealousy

Author:Gladys Taber

“Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.”

People Soul Hands Walks Pride Destruction Endure Humble Immortality Providence Hand In Hand

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.”

Self Sides Self Esteem Pride Destruction Aim Guilt Esteem Reverse Coins Self Destruction

Author:Bill W.

“Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.”

Stills Games Cities Example Pride Destruction Olympic Games

Author:Gary Hustwit

“These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.”

People Spiritual Joy Race Consciousness Color Pride Essentials Laughter Destruction Harmony Simplicity Manifestation Spontaneous Delightful Naive Radiance Spiritual Beauty

Book:Quicksand & Passing

Source: Quicksand & Passing

“Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.”

Mind Heart Soul Parent Alive Pride Destruction

Author:Anne Rice

“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

Spirit Fall Pride Destruction Haughty Haughtiness Pride And Arrogance

Author:Joseph Addison

“One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages.”

“I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”

Ifs Thinking Way Faces Hate Nations Conditions Serious Pride Gay Messages Destruction Terrorist Redemption Bombs Flags Hurricanes Earthquakes Gay Pride Tornadoes Meteors Orlando

Author:Pat Robertson

“Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.”

“Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.”

People Two Causes Fear Poverty Pride Destruction Seeking Destroyed Arrogance Two Things Islamic Superiority Conceit Wise Man Once Said Hubris Islamic Wisdom Caliphs Haughtiness

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib