Quotes About Destruction

dwellings are prostrate; walls are toppling; churches are falling; sacred things are perishing; laws are trodden underfoot; justice is abused; the unhappy people mourn and wail.

The loss of so many ancient books could be blamed on something more than the apathy of feudal lords and the negligence and greed of unscrupulous monks. It could be blamed, too, on circumstances beyond the inevitable and indiscriminate destruction of floods and fires, or the pernicious appetites of mice, warble flies, and bookworms. All these things played their part, but there was another reason so few texts survived, and that was technology: how books were made.

Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not? Justinian the Great burned all of the Greek scrolls in Constantinople after he codified the Roman law and drove the Ostrogoths from Italy. And Shih Huang Ti, the first Emperor of China, the man who unified the five kingdoms and built the Great Wall, decreed that every book written before he was born should be destroyed.

Nothing is lost; destruction is only a name for a change of substance Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, c. 50 BC

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through the mountains, cut down a thousand years of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted. There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

By what standard, by what standard have you dared to approach the problem of life? Any standard other than the Trinity, the triune God in Himself, is an offense against God, and the destruction of Christian faith and life.

Nunca son los mismos quienes construyen y quienes derriban.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

No one rules the world forever, the gods grow jealous. If someone is constantly successful or too powerful - be it Alexander or Napolean or Hitler - the gods will eventually destroy him.

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital:

El cansancio peligroso conforma una condición atmosférica inestable del alma y presagia el riesgo de una gran destrucción. Se trata de una fatiga interior acumulada a través de meses y meses, y no siempre se manifiesta con cansancio físico. Es más, puede estar enmascarada tras una actividad excesiva y un trabajo exagerado.

Justice and abuse: Justice makes life thrive while abuse deteriorates and destroys it.

Weapons of mass destruction: Weapons of mass destruction cannot exist in a perfect world, but since the world we live in is full of evil I say keep them for your protection but always be responsible with them.

What does a bully, a bullet, and a tornado have in common? Their all destructive, they can all kill you.

It's so very difficult to establish where the borderline runs between true power that subdues everything, power that creates the world or destroys it—where the borderline is between living power, great, even terrifying, and the appearance of power, the empty pantomime of ruling, being one's own dummy, only playing the role, not seeing the world, not hearing it, merely looking into oneself.

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that stands on it.

Sak?n tepenize bir s?rça kö?k kurmay?n?z. Ama günün birinde nas?lsa böyle bir s?rça kö?k kurulursa, onun y?k?lmaz, devrilmez bir ?ey oldu?unu sanmay?n. En heybetlisini tuz buz etmek için üç be? kelle f?rlatmak yeter.

You are a woman born of secrets and sadness. It will either destroy your future or lead you to greatness. A handsome gentleman with eyes like the sky and hair like a raven's wing will come into your life. If you let him, he will become the hand of your vengeance. If you let him,he will shatter your heart.

We really do not need another nuclear explosion to annihilate life on this planet. Just a successful economy can do it quite effectively!

And even those Americans who are blinded by childlike patriotism can see that it is only a matter of time before White America too will be utterly destroyed by her own sins, and all traces of her former glory will be removed from this planet forever.

When the object perishes, the pneuma that animated it is reabsorbed into the logos as a whole. This process of destruction and reintegration happens to individual objects at every moment.