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Quotes About Destruction

Put it all together, and the power of Mont-Blanc's cargo works out to about 3 kilotons of TNT—or about a fifth of the 15 kilotons the "Little Boy" atomic bomb unleashed on Hiroshima.
~ John U. Bacon
So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.
~ John Updike
Things are fearsome enough, without taking a road that must lead destruction.
~ John Varley
This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last maker of history swallows all previous history down. - The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines
~ John Wain
We might have what it takes to win. Visions of Earth filled his head. The devastation, the destruction. How can we fight that sort of mindless violence? That was the key to their survival. Finding the answer. ?And acting on it in a meaningful way.
~ John Walker
You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery, Enters the devil murder.
~ John Webster
Den intellektuelle borde inte bli tvingad att förstöra det som han ägnat sitt liv åt att bygga upp.
~ John Williams
A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.' He paused for a long moment; then he smiled slightly. 'The scholar should not be asked to destroy what he has signed his life to build.
~ John Williams
The Upper One sent the Tribulation to destroy them and remind them that existence means constant change.
~ John Wyndham
Ritual regulation of production and belligerence means that domestication has become the decisive factor. "The emergence of systematic warfare, fortifications, and weapons of destruction," says Hassan, "follows the path of agriculture.
~ John Zerzan
May your balls rot like fruit in the sun, and your manhood wither at the root!
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so beautiful , it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
~ Elizabeth Wein
It's not desperation—there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing—and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
~ Elizabeth Wein
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Though God is strict to mark iniquity and to punish transgression, He takes no delight in vengeance. The work of destruction is a "strange work" to Him who is infinite in love.
~ Ellen G. White
The people first beheld the destruction of the works of their own hands. Their splendid buildings, and the beautiful gardens and groves where they had placed their idols, were destroyed by lightning from heaven, and the ruins were scattered far and wide. The altars on which human sacrifices had been offered were torn down, and the worshipers were made to tremble at the power of the living God, and to know that it was their corruption and idolatry which had called down their destruction.
~ Ellen G. White
By the word of God ...the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." 2 Peter 3:5-7. Another storm is coming. The earth will again be swept by the desolating wrath of God, and sin and sinners will be destroyed.
~ Ellen G. White
Not even a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father's notice. Satan's hatred against God leads him to hate every object of the Saviour's care. He seeks to mar the handiwork of God, and he delights in destroying even the dumb [voiceless] creatures.
~ Ellen G. White
Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.
~ elliot jaspin
I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling stream/took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens.
~ Elvis Costello
There was no way to go back. Time and the wrecking ball have taken care of the rest.
~ Elvis Costello
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
~ Emil Cioran
Arbori masacraÅ£i. R?sar case. Mutre, mutre pretutindeni: omul e cancerul P?mântului.
~ Emil Cioran