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Quotes About Destruction

No fire from the sun will end the world, but the one made by a man.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!
~ Sir John Betjeman
Man's greatest advances these last few generations have been made by the application of human intelligence to the management of matter. Now we are confronted by a more difficult problem, the application of intelligence to the management of human relations. Unless we can advance in that field also, the very instruments that man's intelligence has created may be the instruments of his destruction.
~ Sir Norman Angell
For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
~ Bobby Womack
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
~ Hosea Ballou
Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
~ Jim Carrey
I'm the Hiroshima of love.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.
~ Nick Lowe
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.
~ Phil Elvrum
People destroy what they love.
~ Paulo Coelho
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
~ John Galsworthy
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.
~ Blake Lively
At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something.
~ Maurice Blanchot
La primera víctima del conflicto deben ser nuestros propios sentimientos," fue la última frase de su propuesta, "porque su supervivencia será la causa de nuestra destrucción.
~ Max Brooks
I couldn't believe that something so beautiful could come from fire.
~ Max Brooks
It's ironic that the only way to kill a zombie is to destroy its brain, because, as a group, they have no collective brain to speak of. There was no leadership, no chain of command, no communication or cooperation on any level. There was no president to assassinate, no HQ bunker to surgically strike. Each zombie is its own, self-contained, automated unit, and this last advantage is what truly encapsulates the entire conflict.
~ Max Brooks
And then they came, right out of the smoke like a freakin' little kid's nightmare! Some were steaming, some were even still burning…some were walking, some crawling, some just dragging themselves along on their torn bellies…maybe one in twenty was still able to move, which left…shit…a couple thousand? And behind them, mixing with their ranks and pushing steadily toward us, the remaining million that the air strike hadn't even touched!
~ Max Brooks
why wouldn't destruction of the brain be the only way to annihilate these creatures? Isn't it the only way to annihilate us as well?
~ Max Brooks
The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality" was the closing statement for his proposal, "for its survival will mean our destruction.
~ Max Brooks
der Terror, scheint es, eignet sich beonders zur Vernichtung sittlicher Menschen.
~ Max Frisch