We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves. — Otto Frank
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. — Stephen Hawking
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way. — Arundhati Roy
We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. — Aesop
Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves. — Jonas Salk
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature. — Yvon Chouinard
We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet. — Mark Boyle
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future. — Sakyong Mipham
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel
What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? — Jane Goodall
We are being wiped off the face of this earth
At an extremely alarming rate
And even more alarming is the fact
That we are not fighting back — Tupac Shakur
We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing. — W. Edwards Deming
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves. — Jello Biafra
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. — Paul R. Ehrlich
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. — Steve Maraboli
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Destroy Yourself Quotes
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. — Oprah Winfrey
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them. — Iyanla Vanzant
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease. — Andrew Tate
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. — Richard M. Nixon
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me, it has only strengthened me.
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy
Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youre better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys. — Simon Sinek
Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk. — Thomas Brooks
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed. — Anais Nin
Don't Destroy Yourself Quotes
People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful. — Eva Le Gallienne
Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases. — Michael Bassey
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet. — Steven Pressfield
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself. — Bryan White
AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself. — Ryan White
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. — Richard M. Nixon
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself. — Colin Farrell
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. — Richard M. Nixon
Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies. — Sarah Rees Brennan
The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you. — Vladimir Vasiliev
The power to tax is the power to destroy. — John Marshall
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. — Stewart Udall
It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw. — Heinz Guderian
Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. — Frederick Lenz
To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. — Anwar Sadat
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. — Henri de Lubac
Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum. — Tom Watson
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! — James Connolly
None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can! — Ratan Tata
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more. — Oskar Schindler
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. — George Washington Carver
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. — Pythagoras
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away — Helen Steiner Rice
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.' — Saint John Chrysostom
In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke. — Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy. — Haile Selassie
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys. — Chief Dan George
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for. — Ronald Reagan
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation — Saladin
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch. — Guru Gobind Singh
When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it! — Yuri Gagarin
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. — Albert Einstein
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent. — J. Edgar Hoover
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become. — Alphonse Mucha
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera
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