Quotes About Destruction

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.