Quotes About Destruction

Jakie? czarodziejskie zakl?cie w ruch go wprawia?o. Kto jest zakl?cia tego w?odarzem. Co na tym zyska?, ?e go wy??czy?. Có? to za machina. Jakim cudem w ogóle dzia?a?a. Jak?? nap?dzana iskr?. Wspania?a machina. Akuratnie dostrojona. Iskr? otrzymawszy, do ?ycia si? zerwa?a. Kto iskr? t? zgasi?? (...) Kto by ?mia?. Zniszczy? taki cud.

I learned long ago that conservation has no victories, that one must retain connections and remain involved with animals and places that have captured the heart, to prevent their destruction. I am sometimes asked why, given a world that is more wounded and scarred, I do not simply give up, burdened by pessimism. But conservation is my life, I must retain hope

You maniacs! You blew it all up! Goddam you all. Goddam you all to hell.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

RE: Lake George from a book by Lord. That's all I know. "There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees.... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces

It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the villa on fire. Leslie

Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.

evil is always self-consuming. Even as Mannington overthrows the prime minister, he must himself begin to fear for his own security.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Pride ruined the angels.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

from various periods but (since its site was obliterated