Quotes About Destruction

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

While the national highway system connects cities and facilitates economic activity across the nation, it's construction historically has been deeply destructive for many communities, particularly low-income communities and communities of color.

You know, if you look at a lot of the hit games from America, they are about end of the world scenarios.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Breaking up a hotel room doesn't change anything.

I only ever did one hotel room because at the end of the tour, I had a little less money than the rest of the guys, and the tour manager said, 'You remember that hotel room you destroyed in Iowa? Well, we had to pay for it.' And I was like, 'Ooooh. That's how it works.'

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

People don't talk about the amount of destruction in terms of human lives that happen, whether it's through slavery, or through, for example, what Belgium was doing in the Congo - the fragmentation of society that happened after that destruction of human life.

The masters according to Nietzsche are the untimely, those who create, who destroy in order to create, not to preserve. Nietzsche says that under the huge earth-shattering events are tiny silent events, which he likens to the creation of new worlds: there once again you see the presence of the poetic under the historical.

It infects you. It ruined me.

I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured. But I was out of places to write, slicing myself between my toes—bad, cry—like a junkie looking for one last vein. Vanish did it for me. I'd saved the neck, such a nice prime spot, for one final good cutting. Then I turned myself in.

If you remove the bloody floorboards and water-stained tiles; if you destroy the beams that held Robert Carterhook's body, and you tear down the walls that absorbed the screams, do you take down the house? Can it be haunted if the actual guts - its internal organs - have been removed? Or does the nastiness linger in the air?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving...

Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Lie to everyone in this man's world if need be, but never lie to yourself, because that's the quickest road to destruction.

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan's library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn't finished coloring either one of them.

The 20th century is the probably most hideous ugly century of the history of the human race. More people were killed by war in the 20th century than ever in history.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Destruction is a form of creation.

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

In Gower Street they were sweeping up glass, and a building smoked into the new day like a candle which some late reveler had forgotten to snuff.