Quotes About Destruction

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

The war has ruined us for everything.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

War is the science of destruction.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.