Top 87 Quotes About Dismantle

#1. The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake of this risk is the height of irrationality. Yet exaggeration of the threat is repeated over and over.

Glenn Greenwald

#2. Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

Sarah Palin

#3. Secrecy is for losers ... It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#4. Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

Barbara Boxer

#5. The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

Jay L. Garfield

#6. Harry Truman, after all, in conjunction with Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, radically cut back American arms following the end of the Second World War. Johnson himself wished to dismantle the Marine Corps and felt nuclear weapons had made all such conventional arms unnecessary.

Victor Davis Hanson

#7. Hard to love thy enemies before dismantle their weaponry.

Toba Beta

#8. I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle

Iain M. Banks

#9. I believe we must protect Medicare's guaranteed benefit, and I will oppose any effort to dismantle Medicare and turn it into a voucher system.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#10. Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

Bruce Dickinson

#11. Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.

DMX

#12. If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occurs: the girl will eventually dismantle her anger response. Ultimately, it's safer for her to cut off a part of her being than to battle the person on whom her life depends.

Patricia Love

#13. Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible
it's to dismantle those systems.

Lierre Keith

#14. The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

Michael Mullen

#15. We must ... forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Debora Spar

#16. I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done.

Cory Doctorow

#17. There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Noam Chomsky

#18. Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. Buttoning the length of my shirt with Left Neglect and one right hand takes the same kind of singular, intricate, held-breath concentration that I imagine someone trying to dismantle a bomb would need to have.

Lisa Genova

#20. You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at least large parts of market systems.

Noam Chomsky

#21. The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

#22. He is more rooted to the idea of home. He created this home...and established routines like watching the BBC and cooking barbecues for friends. It's much harder to dismantle that world and to rebuild it somewhere else.

Azar Nafisi

#23. The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

W. H. Auden

#24. [I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

Ron Dellums

#25. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

Andrew Solomon

#26. They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.

Sherman Austin

#27. It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney

Dwight Yorke

#28. A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.

Victor Burgin

#29. ...and from here I realized, with the deepest sense of my being, that we can erect and dismantle the great walls of the world, but we will only truly survive as a species when we dedicate ourselves to removing the walls from within.

Dawn Kohler

#30. She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life.

Anita Shreve

#31. No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

Halldor Laxness

#32. I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

Bernie Sanders

#33. It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#34. Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

Jared Diamond

#35. gratification of mind and body will actually dismantle your soul.

John Ortberg

#36. The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

Bryant McGill

#37. Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Neale Donald Walsch

#38. Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.

Nikki Rowe

#39. When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

James MacDonald

#40. Here's what I've learned about raising boys ... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

Kenny Rogers

#41. If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.

Alan Thein Durning

#42. Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

Diane Watson

#43. Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.

Ron Paul

#44. To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen ... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

John Berger

#45. There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

Princess Diana

#46. No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Keith O'Brien

#47. The answer seems to be that we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. With the endless inventiveness of humankind, we grasp the very elements which are so divisive and destructive and try to turn them into tools - to dismantle themselves.

Stephen King

#48. [U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

Shulamith Firestone

#49. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Joseph Beuys

#50. I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#51. The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians ... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

#52. I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#53. It takes a million lies to cover up the truth; however it only takes a single truth to dismantle a million lies.

Alejandro C. Estrada

#54. I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

Peter Mullan

#55. It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

Mike Tyson

#56. I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities though air strikes. And make it very public that we are doing that. Iran would not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.

Rick Santorum

#57. The barricade was taking some while to dismantle. Chair legs and planks and bedsteads and doors and baulks of timber had settled into a tangled mass. Since every piece belonged to someone, and Ankh-Morpork people care about that sort of thing, it was being dismantled by collective argument.

Terry Pratchett

#58. I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.

Lewis Baltz

#59. We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.

Otto Neurath

#60. My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.

Bruce Beutler

#61. Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call "dismantling delusion." I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems.

Kim Hyesoon

#62. It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Tom Waits

#63. You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

Steven Erikson

#64. When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.

Russell Brand

#65. Friends have disagreements sometimes but they don't dwell on the disagreement, they always find a way to dismantle the tension and move on.

Euginia Herlihy

#66. To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

Aaron Ciechanover

#67. Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.

Adam Mansbach

#68. Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#69. sometimes you have to dismantle
your life to find your passion.

Jennifer Pierre

#70. Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

Karen Russell

#71. Do you think there will ever be a time when racism doesn't exist?"

"No, because that means white people would have to buy into being equal. Who'd choose to dismantle the system that makes them special?

Jodi Picoult

#72. Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.

Howard Fineman

#73. Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

Josh Burggraf

#74. It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Bernie Sanders

#75. If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

Greg Abbott

#76. I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

#77. Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

David Gemmell

#78. Praise and worship is such a powerful device is able to dismantle every shackle and its able to breakdown every wall.

Euginia Herlihy

#79. We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

Vandana Shiva

#80. The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Steven Franssen

#81. With millions of people creating songs and uploading them to the web internationally, most artists know they need to dismantle the monetary barrier between themselves and the listener or they simply wont be heard.

Josh Garrels

#82. I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.

Crystal Evans

#83. The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

Audre Lorde

#84. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

Bruce Dickinson

#85. Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

Bill Ayers

#86. I play chess on my iPhone, and indulge in a fond fantasy that my opponent isn't a mind of digital code but Dad: It's Dad's attacks I repel; Dad's defenses I dismantle; Dad's king scurrying around the board to prolong the inevitable.

David Mitchell

#87. First, however, and feeling real excitement at the thought, the good burst of adrenaline at last, Behringer wanted to dismantle the sockets and loosen his patient's eyes. Behringer

Jonathan Lethem

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