Quotes About Destruction

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.

She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need to know is that the present system is destroying them.

I sat on the verandah steps and wept for the loss of my home, for everything that I held to be precious. I tried to muffle the sound of my weeping, but my voice cried out loudly as if it were the only weapon I had against those who had destroyed my life.

Die Krebszellen waren Menschen in Kleinausgabe. Alles fressen, was ihnen in den Weg kommt, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste, auch in Kauf nehmend, vor lauter Gier, dass irgendwann der Wirt nicht mehr ist.

At the end, we receive ashes. They are not condensations of being but a reminder that even fire cannot destroy what has been loved. ––

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Against the background of the War and its brutal stupidity those men had stood glorified by the thing which sought to destroy them…. I

I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

Witch-hunting in all its different forms is also a powerful means to destroy communal relations, injecting the suspicion that underneath the neighbor, the friend, the lover hides another person, lusting for power, sex, wealth, or simply wanting to commit evil deeds.

La caza de brujas no sólo santificaba la supremacía masculina, también inducía a los hombres a temer a las mujeres e incluso a verlas como destructoras del sexo masculino.

La caza de brujas ahondó las divisiones entre mujeres y hombre, inculcó a los hombres el miedo al poder de las mujeres y destruyó un universo de prácticas, creencias y sujetos sociales cuya existencia era incompatible con la disciplina del trabajo capitalista, redefiniendo así los principales elementos de reproducción social.

The idea that the Gate is dangerous and could destroy those who try to enter it is familiar to anyone who has seen the Magic Flute by Mozart or the many mandalas of India and Tibet that show fierce guardians at the gates. Even in Biblical mythology, there is an angel with a fiery sword at the Gate to Paradise.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished!

He has gone out from his place, to make your land a waste.

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.