Quotes About Destruction

Even soul-force, when it is effective, destroys. Only those who have used it with eyes open, know how much more destructive it can be than the sword and the cannon.

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.

Behold my heart, O God, behold my heart, which Thou hadst pity upon in the bottom of the bottomless pit. Now, behold, let my heart tell Thee what it sought there, that I should be gratuitously evil, having no temptation to ill, but the ill itself. It was foul, and I loved it; I loved to perish, I loved mine own fault, not that for which I was faulty, but my fault itself. Foul soul, falling from Thy firmament to utter destruction; not seeking aught through the shame, but the shame itself!

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

HULK SMASH!

At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial, the hopes and expectations (from Requiem for a Hotel /Nekrolog auf ein Hotel,1918)

L'Europe s'aperçoit en frémissant que, par sa sombre indifférence, une puissance destructrice a fait irruption chez elle, puissance qui paralysera ses forces pendant des siècles. Mais dans l'Histoire comme dans la vie des hommes le regret ne répare pas la perte d'un instant, et mille années ne rachètent pas une heure de négligence.

Schulze muttered at one point, "Adolf ist kaputt.

The little fever of envy, once caught, is the ruin of all happiness.

I don't believe a person can be changed in a fundamental sense, but he or she can be guided into new paths, if those paths promise something more important than the original ones did.' 'If the original path is ultimately destructive...?' Selena began earnestly. 'The one doing the changing must see that for himself, Selena. You can only show him an alternative.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

Sara Stark, An Untold Want

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

the laugh seemed to suggest, anyone who thought destruction was more powerful than creation was a fool.

Colin reached out and grabbed hold o fine car engine, ripping it. He lifted it above his head. Solomon Cord dropped the wrench and said God it is true.