Downfall Quotes - Page 6

• Cuando bajo la influencia de ciertas (o algunas) razones (o causas) (el alcohol, la guerra, etc. -añadió Spir aquí) los bajos instintos se desenfrenan (o no se contienen), el bruto aparece (o se presenta, "apparait", Fr.) y gobierna (o domina), sofocando todo ("toute", Fr.) impulso noble y generoso; es entonces la ruina (o la caída o la decadencia) de toda humanidad en el hombre.

  African Spir

  War, Men, Alcohol

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Men, Political

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• Creo que es un poco tonto para la marca de Internet como la "perdición de la juventud".

  Ernest Cline

  Silly, Thinking, Youth

  "‘Ready Player One’: An Interview with Author Ernest Cline". Interview with Rebecca Serle, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Most people wear clothing that is too big or too small for them. And "oversized" is the downfall for most of us. We have to be careful that we don't look like we're slipcovered!

  Tim Gunn

  People, Looks, Bigs

  "Tim Gunn's Take on Fall Fashion". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 25, 2006.

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• Aquellos de nosotros que siempre aborrecimos la esclavitud como una iniquidad atea, con gusto nos unimos al coro exultante de la humanidad por su caída.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Humanity, Atheism

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.268

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• Haberse esforzado tanto, haber moldeado una personalidad pública a partir de una identidad tan amorfa, haber sostenido ese esfuerzo sobrehumano sólo para terminar con cada debilidad revelada y cada error agravando la caída... ése fue un destino de proporciones bíblicas. Evidentemente, la Deidad no toleraría la presunción de que todo puede ser manipulado; era necesaria una lección objetiva de los límites de la presunción humana.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Biblical, Fate, Errors

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• El comunismo, como cualquier otra religión revelada, se compone en gran parte de profecías. Cuando no se cumplen, sus clérigos se limitan a decir que se harán realidad más adelante. Así, si tenemos otro boom, argumentarán que el colapso del capitalismo sólo se pospone. El hecho de que los mayores auges de los que se tiene noticia hayan seguido a la profecía formal de Marx sobre la caída del capitalismo ya se ha olvidado, del mismo modo que millones de personas han olvidado hace tiempo la profecía de los primeros cristianos de que el fin del mundo estaba cerca. Los primeros cristianos aceptaban los aplazamientos tan dócilmente como los comunistas de hoy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Hands, Long

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

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• Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.

  John le Carre

  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Odd

  "British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, “Our Kind of Traitor”". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2010.

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• Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Religious, Ignorance

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• When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Thinking, Light

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• The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].

  Charlie Munger

  Dumb, Buckets, Acquisition

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• [La ruina de nuestro sistema político es la] compraventa de políticos... el soborno. En el sector privado, te detienen por ello. En el sector público, es la norma.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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• One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Children, Should Have, Pedestal

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• Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

  Peaches Geldof

  Lust, Brain, Survival

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• If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Screw Ups, Watches

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• Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the many lost hours. So while you still have time, seek to enrich your own spirits for the tomorrow which awaits you because, in accordance with the teachings of the Lord, it is of no use to retain the outward appearance of the splendor of all the empires of this world, if you maintain darkness within your heart.

  Chico Xavier

  Teaching, Heart, Darkness Within

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• I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.

  Questlove

  Artist, Awards, Losing

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• For me, my lack of patience in real life - I have always had very little patience. It's been very much my downfall in life. But having a child puts it in perspective. Very quickly you're like, "Oh, I need to learn what patience is."

  Mila Kunis

  Children, Real, Perspective

  "Here's Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn's Advice For Every Husband". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2016.

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• There is no media freedom in China. As a result, the society is corrupt and lacks productivity. It is unable to adjust itself for progress. This will lead to the country's eventual downfall.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Media, Progress

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• Mi mayor defecto es mi voz interior. Crecer como bailarina te hace ser muy crítica contigo misma. Aprendes a mirarte en el espejo y criticas cada línea de tu cuerpo. Nunca es perfecto. Yo crecí así porque en la escuela había ballet todos los días.

  Carmen Electra

  Growing Up, School, Mirrors

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England must once again bow down her fair neck to his proud usurping yoke and foot.

  Roger Williams

  Believe, Feet, Bows

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Littles, World

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Imagination, Perception

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• La verdad dura más que todos los dioses; pues sólo al servicio de la verdad, y por amor a ella, los hombres han derrocado a los dioses y al fin al mismo Dios. "La verdad" dura más que la caída del mundo de los dioses, pues es el alma inmortal de este mundo transitorio de dioses; es la Deidad misma.

  Max Stirner

  People, Soul, Atheism

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.311, Cambridge University Press

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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