Quotes About Destruction

Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom? A Great heavens, no! If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction.

Powerful and mighty is the human mind! It builds or it destroys.

Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.

Ejército, matrimonio, Iglesia y banca: los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis.

A inveja é um cego que quer arrancar os olhos do outro.

Az emlékek olykor pusztítóbbak, mint a puskagolyó.

Armee, Ehe, Kirche und Bankwesen: die vier apokalyptischen Reiter.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel. Le guerre negano la memoria, dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome ed un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

Zavist je slijepac koji ti želi iskopati o?i.

occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.

Il mondo non verrà distrutto da una bomba atomica, come dicono i giornali, ma da una risata, da un eccesso di banalità che trasformerà la realtà in una barzelletta di pessimo gusto.

She said that someone had been following her and she was afraid it was the man called Coubert, who was trying to get hold of the books to destroy them.

Le guerre negano la memoria dissuadendoci dall'indagare sulle loro radici, finché non si è spenta la voce di chi può raccontarle. Allora ritornano, con un altro nome e un altro volto, a distruggere quel poco che avevano risparmiato.

Slušaju?i ga, palo mi je na pamet da mi u tom trenutku zadovoljstvo može priuštiti samo da zapalim pola svijeta i izgorim s njim.

A few days later, shortly after midnight, Cabestany's warehouse in Pueblo Nuevo burned down to its foundations. And for free.

El dragón carmesí crecía día tras día y devoraba cuanto encontraba a su paso. Los cuerpos desgarrados llovían del cielo y las llamas de su aliento fluían por las calles como un torrente de sangre.

Do you want to set fire to the whole world and burn with it? Let's do it together. You fix the price.

Leger, huwelijk, kerk en bankwezen: de vier ruiters van de apocalyps.

I took an axe To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf As he slept.

Chaos is a powerful weapon. And we all have our weapons for creating chaos. Teresa advises us to recognize chaos as a power we use too often and to recognize that each of us has an actual relationship to chaos. Chaos is, in fact, a force throughout the universe, its own entity, an archetype of destruction and transformation that operates in every life.

de acordo com os princípios bíblicos hoje requer que as mulheres sejam ousadas o suficiente para permanecer firmes contra filosofias e fortalezas que buscam destruir a Palavra de Deus e sua autoridade.

So long for us to evolve. So long to walk out of Africa and around the globe. So long to build a human world. So quick to ruin it.

hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted