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Quotes About Destruction

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
~ Janet Reno
Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.
~ Chellis Glendinning
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.
~ James Fallows
I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.
~ Carl Sagan
Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.
~ N. Katherine Hayles
It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.
~ Jaron Lanier
He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.
~ Kayla Krantz, Dead by Morning
Liberalism Has Nearly Destroyed Black America, And Now It's Time For Black America To Return The Favor.
~ Elbert Guillory
The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
~ John Shimkus
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
~ Gerald Durrell
The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.
~ Shoghi Effendi
This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.
~ Jack Schmitt
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
~ David R. Brower
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
~ Marilyn Manson
Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.
~ Anne Applebaum
Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
~ Anne Bronte
he has no more idea of exerting himself to overcome obstacles than he has of restraining his natural appetites; and these two things are the ruin of him.
~ Anne Bronte
I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.
~ Anne Frank
What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?
~ Anne Frank
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again
~ Anne Frank
There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!
~ Anne Frank