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After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. – Alexis de Tocqueville	added by Normando 5 years ago
I have never had an experience like that, but I knew that I had to speak for my people and for all people who white supremacists would wish to oppress or destroy altogether, i stood up to them for the same reason I'm standing against the scholarship at my university. – Sarah Stein	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If you would have heard and seen the stuff sent and spoken to me over this last week, i was shocked -- and I have gotten a lot of hate in my life. People have told me that they will destroy me. – Michael Pfleger	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They destroy autistic people, you get LEDs, you ask someone to stop wearing perfume, and you make everyone better. – Tara Cunningham	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They say that they have been authorized to occupy indigenous land, we are here to oppose mining, hydroelectric and agribusiness companies that destroy tribal communities and Mother Nature. – Sonia Guajajara	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust. – Saint Augustine	added by Normando 5 years ago
The Republican Party now -- particularly the Republicans in this government -- are just sitting by the sidelines and letting the Trump administration destroy this country. I mean they don't say anything, they don't stand up to him. – Ronald Reagans daughter	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are attached to constitutional rights, but we've got people who through all means quite simply want to make a wreck of the republic, to break things and destroy, running the risk of getting people killed, i want us to very precisely analyze things and as quickly as possible take strong, complementary decisions so this doesn't happen again. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others. – Robert Sweet	added by Normando 5 years ago
There is a mob that wants to destroy only Fox, we're going to fight it. – Sean Hannity	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Change it, reverse it, and ultimately destroy it. – James Hart Stern	Found on CNN 5 years ago
No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves. – Zaman Ali	added by KML 5 years ago
The only way you can get the system back into compliance is to destroy the system, destroy the missile. There is no way to alter it, there is no way to change it, there is no way to adjust the fuel cycle. – Andrea Thompson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I was not willing to destroy or donate them to science. We worked too hard for them. – Rebecca Ruano	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The worry was that we would destroy the legacy of the band by making an album that wasn't up to standard, once we had gone through all the demos that Dolores and I had worked on and decided that we had such a strong album we knew it would be the right thing and the best way that we could honor Dolores. – Noel Hogan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It takes years to comprehend the trauma of child sex abuse, well into adulthood, to decide whether to move forward, what police do when they destroy rape kits, and other evidence of crimes against children before the statute of limitations has passed, is rob them of their full chance at justice. – Marci Hamilton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Each one of these kits represents a victim, what Kym Worthy are doing when Kym Worthy destroy a rape kit is destroying the chance that they are ever going to see justice. – Kym Worthy	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President's totally unqualified, and The President only qualification seems to be that The President wants The President to be the hatchet man to destroy the Mueller investigation. – Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our hands are not tied as they were in The Obama administration, the Obama administration is now the policy of United States to shoot back to deter( an) adversary's cyber operations. If we could get into their network, we could destroy their computers. We could take down the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps network affecting the banks. – President Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Obama administration is now the policy of United States to shoot back to deter( an) adversary's cyber operations. If we could get into their network, we could destroy their computers. We could take down the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps network affecting the banks. – Jason Healey	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is no proof whatsoever, this is one of the PT's strategies. They've reached a point where they realize they can't win and are now trying to destroy the image of the opposition candidate with false stories. – Fabio Silveira	Found on CNN 5 years ago
No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historical villains, which is done often and all the time. It's got to stop. We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property. There is one way to settle our disagreements -- it's called peacefully, at the ballot box. That's what we want. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
You can not be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about, that's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. – Christiane Amanpour	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Since right from the moment we announced, radical Democrats launched a disgraceful campaign to resist, obstruct, delay, demolish and destroy, right from the beginning, brett Kavanaugh is a man of great character and intellect. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago

After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

– Alexis de Tocqueville

added by Normando
5 years ago

I have never had an experience like that, but I knew that I had to speak for my people and for all people who white supremacists would wish to oppress or destroy altogether, i stood up to them for the same reason I'm standing against the scholarship at my university.

– Sarah Stein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If you would have heard and seen the stuff sent and spoken to me over this last week, i was shocked -- and I have gotten a lot of hate in my life. People have told me that they will destroy me.

– Michael Pfleger

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They destroy autistic people, you get LEDs, you ask someone to stop wearing perfume, and you make everyone better.

– Tara Cunningham

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They say that they have been authorized to occupy indigenous land, we are here to oppose mining, hydroelectric and agribusiness companies that destroy tribal communities and Mother Nature.

– Sonia Guajajara

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

– Saint Augustine

added by Normando
5 years ago

The Republican Party now -- particularly the Republicans in this government -- are just sitting by the sidelines and letting the Trump administration destroy this country. I mean they don't say anything, they don't stand up to him.

– Ronald Reagans daughter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are attached to constitutional rights, but we've got people who through all means quite simply want to make a wreck of the republic, to break things and destroy, running the risk of getting people killed, i want us to very precisely analyze things and as quickly as possible take strong, complementary decisions so this doesn't happen again.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.

– Robert Sweet

added by Normando
5 years ago

There is a mob that wants to destroy only Fox, we're going to fight it.

– Sean Hannity

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Change it, reverse it, and ultimately destroy it.

– James Hart Stern

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.

– Zaman Ali

added by KML
5 years ago

The only way you can get the system back into compliance is to destroy the system, destroy the missile. There is no way to alter it, there is no way to change it, there is no way to adjust the fuel cycle.

– Andrea Thompson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I was not willing to destroy or donate them to science. We worked too hard for them.

– Rebecca Ruano

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The worry was that we would destroy the legacy of the band by making an album that wasn't up to standard, once we had gone through all the demos that Dolores and I had worked on and decided that we had such a strong album we knew it would be the right thing and the best way that we could honor Dolores.

– Noel Hogan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It takes years to comprehend the trauma of child sex abuse, well into adulthood, to decide whether to move forward, what police do when they destroy rape kits, and other evidence of crimes against children before the statute of limitations has passed, is rob them of their full chance at justice.

– Marci Hamilton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Each one of these kits represents a victim, what Kym Worthy are doing when Kym Worthy destroy a rape kit is destroying the chance that they are ever going to see justice.

– Kym Worthy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The President's totally unqualified, and The President only qualification seems to be that The President wants The President to be the hatchet man to destroy the Mueller investigation.

– Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our hands are not tied as they were in The Obama administration, the Obama administration is now the policy of United States to shoot back to deter( an) adversary's cyber operations. If we could get into their network, we could destroy their computers. We could take down the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps network affecting the banks.

– President Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Obama administration is now the policy of United States to shoot back to deter( an) adversary's cyber operations. If we could get into their network, we could destroy their computers. We could take down the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps network affecting the banks.

– Jason Healey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is no proof whatsoever, this is one of the PT's strategies. They've reached a point where they realize they can't win and are now trying to destroy the image of the opposition candidate with false stories.

– Fabio Silveira

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historical villains, which is done often and all the time. It's got to stop. We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property. There is one way to settle our disagreements -- it's called peacefully, at the ballot box. That's what we want.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can not be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about, that's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again.

– Christiane Amanpour

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Since right from the moment we announced, radical Democrats launched a disgraceful campaign to resist, obstruct, delay, demolish and destroy, right from the beginning, brett Kavanaugh is a man of great character and intellect.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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