Quotes About Destruction

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren't just about belief.

La participación en actos cuyo único propósito es la expansión del dolor y el sufrimiento inocentes es algo que destruye el carácter; el encuentro directo con la tragedia, en cambio, puede potenciarlo.

La seguridad de la sociedad predecible proporciona un antídoto al miedo, pero una sociedad demasiado rígida garantiza que tarde o temprano se producirá su propia destrucción.

Life is in truth very hard. Everyone is destined for pain and slated for destruction.

opportunity for the inner darkness to reveal itself. The lust for blood, rape and destruction is very much part of power's attraction. It is not only that men desire power so that they will no longer suffer. It is not only that they desire power so that they can overcome subjugation to want, disease and death. Power also means the capacity to take vengeance, ensure submission, and crush enemies.

the careless demolition of tradition is the invitation to the (re)emergence of chaos. When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

I was simultaneously tormented by the fact of the Cold War. It obsessed me. It gave me nightmares. It drove me into the desert, into the long night of the human soul. I could not understand how it had come to pass that the world's two great factions aimed mutual assured destruction at each other. Was one system just as arbitrary and corrupt as the other? Was it a mere matter of opinion? Were all value structures merely the clothing of power? Was everyone crazy?

Trying to address a perplexing problem: the reason or reasons for the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

Quizá, si viviéramos como habría que vivir, no tendríamos problemas en reconocer nuestro carácter frágil y mortal, sin caer en el victimismo ofuscado que genera primero resentimiento, luego envidia y, finalmente, deseo de venganza y destrucción.

El orden, cuando se lleva demasiado lejos, cae en el desequilibrio y puede también manifestarse de una forma destructiva y terrible.

El ritmo actual de destrucción de la biodiversidad es comparable e incluso superior al de las perturbaciones ambientales que produjeron las grandes extinciones en masa (incluida la que acabó con los dinosaurios).

Qué más quieren si ya salen de noche, practican el sexo y hacen lo que les da la gana? ¿Por qué además han de destruirse? ¿Es eso libertad?

Queipo de Llano había dicho: «De Madrid haremos una ciudad, de Bilbao una fábrica, de Barcelona un solar». Arrasarlo todo. Como en 1714.

Todo el que crea un monstruo, tarde o temprano ha de destruirlo, o el monstruo le destruye a él.

el fuego, mire usted que obviedad, quema una cosa pero a la vez deja allanado el camino para que crezca otra

The devil has taken possession of everybody in Ilhéus. All they think about is money and bigness. They're on the road to hell. Things are going to start happening…

Los españoles cargaron con la vajilla y las mujeres y destruyeron el Gran Teocali. Destruyeron además la sociedad azteca, que estuvo dividida en las siguientes clases: nobles, sacerdotes, guerreros, mercaderes, macehuales y esclavos; e hicieron una nueva división: vencedores y vencidos, que se conservó, aunque con otros nombres, hasta el tiempo de Porfirio Díaz, en el que estas dos clases sociales se llamaron, respectivamente, 'la gente decente y los pelados'.

The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.

Omul se teme de Dumnezeu È™i Dumnezeu se teme numai de cheie. Cine o deÈ›ine îl poate distruge. Cheia trebuie s? fie distrus?, pentru c? Dumnezeu trebuie s? fie în via?? în mintea noastr?. Ceea ce ne sperie ne mângâie. Frica este putere. Dumnezeu trebuie s? tr?iasc?.

Los placeres profundos son caóticos y destructivos. Y la felicidad de la paz es un disfraz del aburrimiento.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

El no percibir brutalmente la destrucción, el aniquilamiento del cuerpo que se ama, es el gran milagro de la convivencia.

We wouldn't believe that the Germans, known as the enlightened world as 'bearers of culture,' were capable of planning and carrying out, in cold blood, without pity, the mass destruction of human beings by industrial means, as if they were bedbugs, flies, or other pests to be exterminated.