Quotes About Destruction

You are not the first Heterodyne to be more concerned with destruction than with the continuation of the family.

Days – no, weeks – after the bomb and everything still smelt of burning.

Pride goeth before destruction," he quoted, "and a haughty spirit before a fall.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

Isis want to destroy the knowledge that Islam is a beautiful, scientific and intelligent culture, and we are way ahead of them.

This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart.

Evil will destroy itself.

Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.

We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

Some resent being called sinners, but when pastoral oversight and charitable concern for others falters, lives are sooner or later, in this life or the next, brought to destruction.

Cuánto daño, y todavía se reverencia e idolatra a uno de los más grandes destructores de la economía nacional! Casi se le reza ante los altares de la patria a este soñador suicida que hundió más en la miseria a quien deseaba ayudar. Cárdenas nos condujo al infierno, eso sí, con paternal cariño…

Human beings could be defined as the keepers of a wall of separation dwelling at the threshold between dimensions longing to meet. As long as we insist being attached to the wall, these dimensions will keep on causing destruction and misery in our life. All human pain and troubles are basically due to our stubbornness in preserving this wall.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.

Dust represents the disintegration of the universe.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

In his struggle for selfish gain, man has often needlessly tipped the scales so that Nature's balance has been destroyed, and the public welfare has usually been on the short-weighted side.

We have sown the wind; he is the hurricane

It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

By elevating the conservation status of supposedly pristine parts of nature, and disregarding the rest – the new wild – conservationists end up complicit in forest destruction and biodiversity loss. *