Quotes About Destruction

The wealth process is dominated by winner-take-all effects. Any form of control of the wealth process—typically instigated by bureaucrats—tends to lock people with privileges in their state of entitlement. So the solution is to allow the system to destroy the strong, something that works best in the United States.

top-down is usually irreversible, so mistakes tend to stick, whereas bottom-up is gradual and incremental, with creation and destruction along the way

Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.

He Sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature...the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth wile.

Self-destruction is an act best performed in the dark.

In a letter to Benjamin Franklin he described how the explosion of the Augusta created a cloud like none other he had ever seen: "a thick smoke rising like a pillar and spreading from the top like a tree." It did not become the symbol of a new and terrible age of destruction for another 168 years, but in the fall of 1777 the skyline of Philadelphia was darkened by the shadow of the mushroom cloud.

Since republics rely on the inherent virtue of the people, they are exceedingly fragile. All it takes is one well-placed person to destroy everything. Washington, his face betraying the sadness, anger, and shock of this most recent revelation, turned to Lafayette and asked, "Whom can we trust now?

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

Blew up? How?' 'We dropped a shielded runcible gate into it while the gate at the other end was moved into position before a stream of near-light-speed asteroids flung out from a spinning black hole.

The Allies had broken their word. Without consulting the Norwegian government, they had sent a fleet of bombers to strike Vemork. Many civilians had died. Much needless destruction had been wrought, especially on the nitrate plant in Rjukan. That site had never appeared on any target list and only produced fertilizer for Norwegian agriculture. Hardest to accept was the fact that the primary target, the heavy water plant, had not even been damaged, just as Tronstad had warned it would not be.

Culling staff and methods from SIS's D section (D for destruction) and the Army's similar MI (Military Intelligence) unit, its masterminds, who started the organization from three rooms at St. Ermin's Hotel, referred to themselves as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

I have become the monster of monsters, he thought as he watched it all burn. The butcher of lions. The executioner of eagles. Then

I can't destroy things so beautiful. Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world." Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her. "What do you mean … end?" asked Mikey. "End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet …

Flames are strange things, Jeri said. Enticing, comforting, and yet the most dangerous force there is.

Mientras que la libertad da lugar al crecimiento y la sabiduría, el permiso permite que el mal florezca a una luz del día que, de otro modo, acabaría por destruirlo.

Welcome to life as a god, Scythe Volta said to him. While behind them the building was burning to the ground.

THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.

My heart is a palace pillaged by the herd; They kill and take each other by the throat!

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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.