Walt Whitman on destruction
“To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.”
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Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman I hate commas in the wrong places.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman The real war will never get in the books.
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You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
Bill ClintonBill Clinton A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
David DeidaDavid Deida We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
Prince CharlesPrince Charles As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
Daniel DennettDaniel Dennett A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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