Quotes About Destruction

A distinguished journalist advised me to be so clear in my thinking that I could hold the story of what happened in a single sentence. It is this: I came upon something evil and destroyed it.

Where yet my boys are, and that fatal She, Their mother, the cold partner who hath brought Destruction for a dowry—this to see And feel, and know without repair, hath taught A bitter lesson; but it leaves me free: I have not vilely found, nor basely sought, They made an Exile—not a Slave of me.

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.

Aquello que amamos siepre acaba por destruirnos

Las cosas que amamos siempre acaban por destruirnos.

Wherever she looked, she saw fires. They covered the earth like fallen stars, and like the stars there was no end to them.

even stone will crack and melt if a fire is hot enough.

All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

Fire consumes.' Lord Beric stood behind them, and there was something in his voice that silenced Thoros at once. 'It consumes, and when it is done there is nothing left. Nothing.

Two days' ride to either side of the kingsroad, they passed through a wide swath of destruction, miles of blackened fields and orchards

Communists understand no language other than the cries of agony, to which they are accustomed. Kindness and sympathy or a humane approach will only make them suspicious. They know the world hates them, and that they can exist only by the force of arms, blackmail, fire, rebellion, destruction, death!