Quotes About Destruction

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

And now commenced the work of devastation upon the many good things with which the table was loaded.

El orgullo de quienes no pueden edificar es destruir.

L'homme ne sera parfait que lorsqu'il saura créer et détruire comme Dieu ; il sait déjà détruire, c'est la moitié du chemin de fait.

Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries.

Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.

Omul nu va fi perfect decat atunci cand va sti sa creeze si sa distruga ca Dumnezeu. Deja stie sa distruga, deci jumatate din drum e facut.

The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

He had a strong conviction that no government could be ordained that could resist these internal forces, when, they are directed to its destruction by bad men, or unreasoning mobs, and many then believed, as some yet believe, that our government is unequal to such pressure, when the assault is thoroughly desperate.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. . . . How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people which is its own master, if it be not submissive to the Divinity?

Having destroyed an aristocratic society, we seem ready to go on living complacently amid the rubble forever.

This is Armageddon…Flowering Monstrosity. Tell me what you see." "There's

The Spanish Stairs were destroyed in the fission wars of the late twentieth century. They were rebuilt and destroyed again in the war of the World Restoration in the twenty-first century.

do you or don't you know the two worlds I'm talking about, the world that doesn't exist where you wish you could be on the dirt road that stretches out of Idaho away from the cave and family? The girl you want lives there. All my life I've wanted to be the grand gesture that forces the mouth open in disbelief Instead I was the lamp cord, collecting dust and never moving. It's easy to be the destroyed one.

What men yearn for they often destroy.

Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse.

It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides of a heart, destroyed so easily, done away with before anyone could stop the damage, or salvage what was lost, or even try to save him.

There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.