Quotes About Destruction

We worship fire because it is the closest sensation to what a man feels when love exists. Fire is a passage and a dance, but its destruction brings renewal.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

You make to die You are the dead You the assassin of yourself

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Ay la ficción que daño hace, y Sebastián debería haberlo sabido, viniendo de un país cuyo héroe más grande lleva un orinal en la cabeza. No leas tanto, le decían de niño, y no hizo caso, y así le ha ido. La ficción puede muy bien instalarse en el alma de un hombre hasta destruirla. Sebastián había visto y admirado a lo largo de su vida, hombres capaces de hacer cosas en el mundo real e incapacitados para la ficción.

Sullivan and his army arrived at Genesee river, where they destroyed every article of the food kind that they could lay their hands on. A part of our corn they burnt, and threw the remainder into the river. They burnt our houses, killed what few cattle and horses they could find, destroyed our fruit trees, and left nothing but the bare soil and timber.

Complete destruction," agreed the inspector. "And all because of some hothead – appropriate term, we're thinking – getting hysterical and setting fire to just one house in the street." "At least it has allayed your reports of vampires," said Stoker. The inspector snorted. "Vampires! We knew there was no such thing right from the start." "And yet you were not prepared to enter the house and prove it," I said.

Something's died in me," she goes. "It took a long time for it to do it, but it's dead. You've killed something, just like you'd took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

History's shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.

Shards of glass fell down like lacerated rain

Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.

In 'The World Set Free,' the world's major superpowers attack each other simultaneously.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

He understood that it only took one lunatic and a torch to bring everything to ruin.

It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. 'But

It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another.

The universe collapsed and came crashing down upon them. It

Far from being a mere product of evil, the destruction of textual materials was goal-oriented and carefully rationalized within struggles between competing worldviews that wracked the last century.

Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be destruction.

There's more that we need to be liberated from: maybe a system that prizes competition and ruthlessness and short-term thinking and rugged individualism, a system that serves environmental destruction and limitless consumption so well—that arrangement you can call capitalism. It embodies the worst of machismo while it destroys what's best on Earth. More men fit into it better, but it doesn't really serve any of us.

Charles Fritz wrote in 1957] 'Movement toward the disaster area usually is both quantitatively and qualitatively more significant that flight or evacuation from the scene of destruction.