Quotes of: Destroyed Keyword

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Simone de Beauvoir

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

Carlisle Floyd

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

Samuel P. Huntington

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

Henry Rollins

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

David Ogilvy

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Lyndon B. Johnson

[first lines] title card: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant

Apocalypto

Thor: Loki, turn off the Tesseract or I will destroy it! Loki: You can't! There's no stopping it. There is only the war! Thor: So be it!

The Avengers

Marty McFly: [sees that he has destroyed the huge speaker] Whoa! Rock 'n' Roll.

Back to the Future

Field Marshall Walther Model: Why do all my generals want to destroy my bridges?

A Bridge Too Far

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Aneurin Bevan

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Arthur Erickson

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Audre Lorde

He who destroys another person to succeed in life will have destruction awaiting him at the post of his success.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

What are we doing? Are we talking? Are we having fun? Are we building, destroying, remembering, or forgetting love?

Antonia Perdu

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

Anne Rice

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Anthony Storr

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Alessandro Volta