Quotes About Destruction

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.

Bu dünyaya s?rt Tanr?'yla baÄŸlant? kurmaya getirilmediniz. Böyle ÅŸeyler insan?n tüm gücünü ve iyiliÄŸini yok edebilir. (syf. 3)

In his day, as is still often the case today, anything other than evident heterosexuality could destroy a public official. Acutely aware of the danger, Edgar overcompensated. Like several other public figures with a secret homosexual life, Edgar often behaved viciously toward fellow homosexuals.

So is a woman born — a woman. They are clinging, parasite things, which cannot but adhere; though they destroy themselves by adhering. Do not suppose that I take a pride in it. I would give one of my eyes to be able to disregard him.

Lord George Gordon's own Narrative of these tumultuous events is not marked by any regrets: this, despite the colossal destruction and loss of life which had followed the presentation of the Petition which he had masterminded.

O camarada Lenis nos ensinou que [...] na guerra dos exércitos, não se pode atingir o objetivo estratégico, que é a destruição do inimigo e a ocupação de seu território, sem ter antes atingido uma série de objetivos táticos, visando a desagregar o inimigo antes de enfrentá-lo em campo aberto.

For when people do not keep watch over the commons, it is destroyed. It results, then, that they fall into civil faction, compelling one another by force and not wishing to do what is just themselves.

Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [...] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing.

Uygarl??? tamamen yok etmek isteyenler anarÅŸistlerdir. Bütün kimyac?lar, profesörler, bilim ve edebiyat adamlar? anarÅŸisttir. Ama toplum onlar? cezaland?rmaz, çünkü adli düzen yok olmuÅŸtur. KiÅŸilere sald?r? bile art?k mümkün deÄŸildir çünkü her vatanda??n üstünde elektrikli korunma cihazlar? vard?r.

There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.

Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?

The dismantling of the vast and wholly parasitic armaments industry had given an unprecedented—sometimes, indeed, unhealthy—boost to the world economy. No longer were vital raw materials and brilliant engineering talents swallowed up in a virtual black hole—or, even worse, turned to destruction. Instead, they could be used to repair the ravages and neglect of centuries, by rebuilding the world.

He had already decided that X rays, sonic probes, neutron beams, and all other nondestructive means of investigation would be brought into play before he called up the heavy artillery of the laser. It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

One hemisphere was a giant bull's-eye, a series of concentric rings where solid rock had once flowed in kilometer-high ripples under some ancient hammer blow from space.

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand;

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

If you are clever enough to bring destruction upon me, rest assured that I shall do as much to you.

a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet.

A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the triphammer--an absurd extravagance of energy--but the nut is very effectually crushed all the same.

And now you know why I love no one. Why I never have and never will. Heed my words well. Love only destroys.