Don DeLillo Quotes

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.

Make America great again? Right, but now it comes back to us in a completely twisted way. And in some ways they achieve that, or they at least achieve the appearance of that, but now you try and do it again and it's just... it's so out of sync with who we obviously are as a people.

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?

Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

The greatest enemy to man is man.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

If there is one safe generalization in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves.

If our civilization is destroyed it will not be by ... barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

I am Turkey. To destroy me is to destroy Turkey.

We Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We’re in crisis and we’re dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for Islamic reformation, it is now.

It is the definition of tragedy. You have all those really good arguments for maintaining a status quo that will destroy you…. We are setting ourselves on fire with the best of arguments.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

I'm a walking contradiction.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

It was strange, how easily and quickly protection could cause destruction. Sometimes, Vasher wondered if the two weren't really the same thing. Protect a flower, destroy pests who wanted to feed on it. Protect a building, destroy the plants that could have grown in the soil. Protect a man. Live with the destruction he creates.

What destroys one man preserves another.

America is laughing her way to Hell.

They will love me for that which destroys me.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.