Quotes About Destruction

Art unmakes the world made by work.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Love distills desire upon the eyes,love brings bewitching grace into the heartof those he would destroy.I pray that love may never come to mewith murderous intent,in rhythms measureless and wild.Not fire nor stars have stronger boltsthan those of Aphrodite sentby the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Of all evils, indeed, famine is the worst, and it destroys nothing so effectively as shame. For that which under other circumstances is worthy of respect, in the midst of famine is despised. Thus women snatched the food from the very mouths of their husbands and children, from their fathers, and what was most pitiable of all, mothers from their babes. And while their dearest ones were wasting away in their arms, they were not ashamed to take away from them the last drops that supported life.

It's only gotten to the point where it's easier for us to imagine the destruction of the world than the changing of our economic system

She spent a great deal of time staring into space, oppressed by the sense that she was waiting. But waiting for what? She did not know. Surely someone would call, someone must be needing her. Yet each day proceeded like the one before. Nothing intense, nothing desperate, ever happened. Time did not move. The home, the city, the nation, and life itself were eternal; still she had a foreboding that one day, without warning and without pity, all the dear, important things would be destroyed.

Just because Nelson has been released doesn't mean the government has done us any favors. We have nothing to be grateful for. The government destroyed our country, destroyed our people. If anybody needs amnesty, it is the government.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There's a renewal that happens, but it's a very difficult one.

Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.

That which has no existence cannot be destroyed -- that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense -- nonsense upon stilts.

And the only culture she gets is the one she decimates with bleach.