Sabotage Quotes

“Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“The frightening assaults of pandemic terror have vastly increased our vulnerability. At the outset, hope and humor were able to alleviate the sabotage of our living together, until bit by bit, the raging roars and the thundering crashes of the death toll called the shots. The ground zero of our mental structure must inevitably make us remold another thinking pattern. ("What do they think behind their dirty aprons?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/or economical purpose -- carried out against people and other living things, and is usually conducted by governments against their own citizens (as at Kent State, or in Vietnam, or in Poland, or in most of Latin America right now), or by corporate entities such as J. Paul Getty, Exxon, Mobil Oil, etc etc., against the land and all creatures that depend upon the land for life and livelihood. A bulldozer ripping up a hillside to strip mine for coal is committing terrorism; the damnation of a flowing river followed by the drowning of Cherokee graves, of forest and farmland, is an act of terrorism.
Sabotage, on the other hand, means the use of force against inanimate property, such as machinery, which is being used (e.g.) to deprive human beings of their rightful work (as in the case of Ned Ludd and his mates); sabotage (le sabot dropped in a spinning jenny) -- for whatever purpose -- has never meant and has never implied the use of violence against living creatures.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yes, I thought. That is how it life feels too often. Like you're doing everything you can to survive only to be sabotaged by something beyond your control, maybe even some darker part of yourself.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Sometimes no ones is fighting you. No one is against you. Is just your mentality and attitude, misleading you. Most of the time , it is because of your evil heart.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“When you tell the truth that people don't want to hear. They dig into your life to find something they can discredit you with. To shift the focus from the truth and make people to focus on you. Until they doubt what you say. Sometimes the truth is always there. People are made to look somewhere else to forget about the truth.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I often wonder if our greatest ambition is to destroy ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The biggest thing holding you back is you. Start there.”
― Hunter Post

“i want to keep our body above water.
you want to make us a fish.
— fish”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“The greatness of any truth is revealed by the degree of propaganda that people utilize to discredit it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Envy is much like a heart that sheds innocent blood, but brands itself the dam to a magnificent flood: menacing you'll become to what could lift you above - not from your hands it starts, but your inner parts it loves.”
― Criss Jami

“Oona's mother resisted the notion that violence was happening, or that substantial violence was happening, and said that if there was violence it was because there were paid aggressors on the other side, saboteurs, and that they were trying to kill both our defenders and our people in general, and they were sometimes killing their own kind, to make us look bad, and also because some of their own kind supported us, and they killed them for that, and that the main point was separation, it was not that we were better than them, although we were better than them, how could you deny it, but that we needed our own places, where we could take care of our own, because our people were in trouble, so many of us in trouble, and the dark people could have their own places, and there they could do their own dark things, or whatever, and we would not stop them, but we would not participate in our own eradication, that had to end, and now there was no time to wait, now they were converting us, and lowering us, and that was a sign, a sign that if we did not act in this moment there would be no more moments left and we would be gone.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man

“Those who can't build, destroy.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“As soon as things start going well for you in the hood, it's time to go. Because the hood will drag you back in. It will find a way. There will be a guy who steals a thing and puts it in your car and the cops find it - something. You can't stay. You think you can. You'll start doing better and you'll bring your hood friends out to a nice club, and the next thing you know somebody starts a fight and one of your friends pulls a gun and somebody's getting shot and you're left standing around going, 'What just happened?'

The hood happened.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“The worst of our behaviors will always sabotage the best of our dreams.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Suffering has become an essential part of me, and I’d sabotage any attempt to heal. I’d be fearful of losing my unhappy self. I’d miss it if I were released.”
― Anoir Ou-chad, The Alien

“How many times have we set the stage for our greatest defeats? And how many times did victory elude us because we chose to deny that fact?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can’t think of a more misused phrase than ‘I can’t,’ except in this instance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In order to “protect” ourselves by keeping our lives small and shutting out intimacies, we could actually be hurting ourselves, missing out on a transformative experience of the heart, and sabotaging our small but crucial contribution to making peace.”
― Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

“Self-sabotage will make danger look like comfort, and enemies look like friends.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“When something unbelievably phenomenal is happening in your life and you don't believe you are good enough to have it, you will consciously or unconsciously find a way to sabotage your dreams come true.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“We must remember that attacks from without will always pale in comparison to those from within. And as we reflect on 911, we would be wise to consider the fact that the largest threat to our nation today is less the former and more the latter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When I make someone my friend in order to make that someone your enemy I have betrayed three people all at once.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you got bit, there’s a good chance that the wound on your backside will match the dental configuration in your mouth.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our worst enemy is as close as the nearest mirror.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, put the Soviet Union at risk of collapsing altogether. In this environment, the Soviet tendency to merge espionage and sabotage into a single mission came to the fore, strengthening practices Soviet intelligence and state security services had implemented from the beginning of the Soviet era. Soviet intelligence activities were divided into two lines: intelligence and diversion. Initially, the intelligence directorate, led during World War II by Pavel Fitin, was responsible for collecting intelligence about Germany and its allies. The diversionary directorate, led by Pavel Sudoplatov, dispatched "intelligence sabotage" teams behind German lines to disrupt Germany's supply lines, command and control, and rear areas and to assassinate German officers. According to Fitin, the intelligence directorate supplied intelligence for the diversionary directorate, and officers were regularly exchanged between the two. This crossover between intelligence and sabotage operations is a continuing characteristic of Russian intelligence services today.”
― Kevin P. Riehle, Russian Intelligence: A Case-based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present

“The words clandestine and covert do not mean the same thing, even though they are often used interchangeably. Clandestinity conceals the operation, while covertness conceals the operator. Most of what has been discussed previously in this book falls into the category of clandestine activities-inter-nal security and intelligence collection operations performed in such a way that they are not publicly visible. Clandestine means secret; something is done so that only those involved in it know it is happening. Most intelligence operations are clandestine, because if they became public, sensitive sources and methods could be damaged or eliminated. However, the sponsoring government does not usually hide its involvement in the operation. For example, when an intelligence service pitches a HUMINT source, the source usually knows for what government he/she is working, unless the service is using a false flag to deliberately misrepresent its affiliation. Covert means the sponsoring government does not reveal its involvement. Although covert operations are usually clandestine in the planning stages, the result of a covert activity often becomes public, even intentionally. That includes covert sabotage, in which an object is damaged: for example, when a bomb explodes or a computer system goes offline. The primary element of covert activities is the phrase "plausible deniability," which means the action is visible, but the perpetrator's identity is hidden.”
― Kevin P. Riehle, Russian Intelligence: A Case-based Study of Russian Services and Missions Past and Present

“Pessimism is the cancer of dreams.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough