Quotes About Destruction

The sorrows of humanity are no one's sorrows, as newspaper readers long ago found out. A frisson of horror may go down one's spine at wholesale destruction but one's heart stays unmoved. A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.

The monster always represents the disruption of categories, the destruction of boundaries

The dampness and the rain are hastening the destruction of these and many other manuscripts," Haidara told me. "They should be returned to Timbuktu as quickly as possible," The drier air in Timbuktu acted as a kind of safeguard against fungal rot, though the arid climate of his hometown was also deleterious over time, causing unprotected pages to grow brittle and fall apart. " We have begun to see... mold, mildew, and fungus on paper and also on leather bindings.

In the most heavily bombed part of the country—a high, strategically located plateau in the middle of Laos, called the Plain of Jars, the American bombing runs almost never paused. Of the roughly 150,000 people who lived on the Plain of Jars before the 1960s, only about 9,000 remained at the end of the decade.37 After the war, one-third of the bombs dropped on Laos remained in the ground and undetonated.

Gentle Mother, we were lost together in our silences. Our wordlessness was our mutual destruction.

doing this since 1976! And what they've found so far in these preliminary studies is that pollutants are really destructive. The lakes get gross. Life in them ceases. It took about eight years to make this happen in one of them, everything carefully measured and controlled all the while. Now the scientists are slowly reversing the process. But it will take hundreds of years for the lakes to recover. They think.

Entonces, lamentándose por haber destruído una flor que era bella cuando estaba en el tallo, piensa: ¡Qué energía y que fuerza vital!¡Cuánto ha luchado para defenderla!

Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?

Up until the 17th century, Germany was far more advanced, but then everything devastated by the 30 Years War began to fall apart... The culture is not innocent.

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

We are fast approaching that moment prophesied by Joseph Smith when he said: 'Even this nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be on the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the verge of destruction.

While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence- you cannot begin to build until you have destroyed. You don't know love until you have hated.

My ears were mostly gone from the concussion of the explosives and shotguns,

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

Desde que un ser humano aprendió a escribir y divulgar sus palabras, nunca faltó otro que quisiera borrarlas, destruirlas, hacerlas desaparecer de la faz de la Tierra.

El amor, al menos en términos ideales, está dirigido a la felicidad del ser amado; el odio, en cambio, está destinado a la destrucción propia de quien lo ejerce. Era

But hurry! so united, entwined, mouths broken by love and soul bitten, time will find us destroyed

And so we continued, making love, for over two hundred years and when we finished, five hours later, we realized that our building had been knocked down three months previously and that our room had become a space ship of flesh and bone.

Así pasa cuando se vive mucho, que ya no hay amigos ni enemigos y por fin vemos claro: el gran enemigo del hombre es el Tiempo, su meticulosa obra de destrucción.

Pobres ricos padeciendo la plaga de los pobres. Los pobres son una carga para los países y la gente honrada. Comen mucho y hacen poco, destruyen las universidades y por donde pasan arrasan y si uno les da chance, lo roban.

Criticizing and objecting to everything means an attempt to destruction. If you do not like something, try to make something better than it. Being destructive causes ruins, while being constructive brings about prosperity.

Say what you will about Nero, but at least he was a hell of a fiddler. This guy's burning it all down without a soundtrack."