Quotes:
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
View quotes by Anwar Sadat
Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome, and soul-destroying
View quotes by Lenin
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be 'uneconomic' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper (Small is beautiful, 1973)
View quotes by E F Schumacher
He is destroying our party if we are not careful [on Charles Kennedy]
View quotes by Lady Tonge
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else
View quotes by John Updike
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
View quotes by Frank A Clark
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
View quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
She soothed and solaced and celebrated, destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.
View quotes by Martha Bacon
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.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson
That was the best performance I've ever seen of any British fighter in the ring in my time in boxing [on Calzaghe destroying Lacy 2006]
View quotes by Frank Warren
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
View quotes by Iris Murdoch
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
View quotes by Andre Maurois
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
View quotes by Henry Fielding
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
View quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
He's a fallen hero, a very gentle man under that exterior. He's lived in an environment always ravaged by war and had to be realistic. He wants to use the ring against the enemy instead of destroying it. He doesn't understand the complexities this piece of metal can have on human beings. (on Boromir, Lord of the Rings)
View quotes by Sean Bean
The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!
View quotes by Pierre Cardin
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
View quotes by C S Lewis
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
View quotes by Paul Stanley
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. And honour the reward of action.
View quotes by Francis Quarles
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
View quotes by Eugene Ionesco
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