Quotes About Destruction

One of the Spaniards' first actions during the Reconquest was to destroy the Moorish baths.

When you've got a father who beats you, as a kid you think it's your fault. You develop a self-destructive belief that you're no good. The conflict Pat's always had is whether he's worth anything or worth nothing. MARION O'NEILL, Ph.D., ABPP, clinical psychologist

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.

a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life...

Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

Freedom also has the potential to annihilate because it is limitless.

WORDS ARE TEETH. AND THEY EAT ME ALIVE. FEED ON MY CORPSE INSTEAD.

Haru looked at the devastation around her. I see a world covered in grey ash. I see a world covered in grey ash with flecks of white bone. I see a world covered in grey ash with flecks of white bone of all those who will never rise again.

What wars really destroyed were families.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

The daily routines of each and every element in this universe is based on accurate mathematics. Wherever the math fails, there is destruction.

This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

More than just the ship,' said the Doctor. He indicated the burnt ends of the tangled fibres. 'There was enough thermal energy generated by that thing to destroy an entire planet.' 'He was going to wipe out Cambridge?' Chris was horror-struck. 'All the colleges? The Backs, the railway station… the pubs?' 'Plus the entire planet,' said the Doctor gravely.

What would you have me say, Mr. Stonecrop? That my own boy shouldn't find shelter for someone in need? That my own boy shouldn't care for the outcast?" Now he leaned across the desk. "By God, that my own boy shouldn't stand up—as his father should have stood up—against the money of the town when it set about to destroy a community that never harmed it, merely for the sake of tourists from Boston? Is that what you'd have me say to

To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves to perpetuate. It would be analogous to saying that a being with eyes does not have an interest in continuing to see or is not harmed by being made blind. The Jains of India expressed it well long ago: "All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear.

Anger is to marriage what termites and rot are to trying to rebuild a home.

?loveški rod ni ve? skromen. Nima ?aš?enja. Je aroganten in poln lastne tehnologije. Stalno se zavaja s svojimi iluzijami, da obvladuje svoje stvari, in tako ustvarja kaos in še vedno ho?e videti, da je svet nemogo?e obvladati. Jemljemo od Zemlje in drug drugega. Uni?ujemo gozdove, oceane, in ozra?je. Drug drugega zasužnjujemo, mu?imo pretepamo, ponižujemo in morimo.

By the destruction of his Cravings, This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

I did something that should not have been done and, by direct consequence of that decision, I sit here now and my world is destroyed, my oaths broken with my legacy one of misery and treachery.

Predatory animals usually devour prey in order to convert flesh into fuel. Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power. This applies equally to a political movement, a government, a campaign, a career, a marriage, a performance, a fortune, or a religion. To push a pie into the face of the world's richest man is to take his power, if only for a moment.