#destroyed

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#armed #been #comes #destroyed #hence

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #buddhas #destroyed #get #had

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#dreams #granted #many #our dreams #will

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#begun #completed #consumed #destroyed #finishes

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#boundaries #broken #destroyed #dogma #down

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#dream #hoping #life #realized #soon

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. ↗

— William Morris

#because #created #destroyed #history #kings

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#country #destroyed #entrepreneurial #entrepreneurial spirit #financial