Quotes About Destruction

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.

The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.

The ground was soaked with blood. What had been Clovis was no longer remotely recognizable. His jaw was shattered and hung completely unhinged to the side. One eye socket had been altogether caved in. Oba's knee had broken the man's sternum and crushed his chest. It was glorious.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design.

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

We thought the fireworks were marvelous," said Mort. "And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall.

The gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.

It was a Magnum .32, CIA issue, gray, mean, heavy, capable of blowing a man away at thirty paces, and leaving nothing more than a red mist, a ghastly mess, and a certain amount of paperwork.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.

Humanity now is on a reckless course. It is destroying its self-sufficiency in the world. It is endangering the natural balances that have given humanity such a beautiful and splendid world in which to evolve and to live. This is hazardous not only for your future in this world, but also hazardous regarding your relationships with other races in the universe.

This obsession with knowledge at the expense of human life, of ordinary human relations and pursuits, will destroy you

This is the nature of war: it turns us into enemies. People who have never met kill each other out of fear. War creates so much suffering—children become orphans, entire cities and villages are destroyed. All who suffer in such conflicts are victims.

I used to be a film and music journalist, and wrote for different magazines in the 1990s. I still love music, but the experience destroyed my enthusiasm for film.

Mother Astarte who creates and destroys. Kybele, goddess of all that is, was, and ever shall be," he invoked.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Fire isn't good or bad. It just burns.