Quotes About Destruction

The houses are all gone under the sea.

All order has genocide hidden in its belly. Give it nine months and it will give birth, under clement conditions of course, to a holocaust.

Every war invariably results in terrible tragedies, immense waste and sinful destruction. All wars, no matter how big or small, how nearby or far away, diminish OUR humanity to a barbaric level.

And then women will fuck men instead of men fucking them. And then this place can be burned to the ground.

Un enorme puño invisible sacudía el cielo. La camilla, las sillas, las repisas, los cascos de acero, los zapatos, la ropa, todo se destrozó, salió volando revuelto y con estruendo, para venir a caer al suelo encima de mí. De repente, un viento polvoroso me entró muy hondo por la nariz y me costó respirar. Al abrir los ojos de par en par, miré obviamente hacia la ventana. Afuera, todo se había oscurecido en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.

Great anger is more destructive than the sword

In every way that mattered, we lost and we lost big. Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out. Some cases--ask any cop--are malignant and incurable, devouring everything they touch.

This is the truth of bombed-out ruins: hit a city hard enough and the cheap arrogant veneer will crumble faster than you can snap your fingers; it's the old stuff, the stuff that's endured, that might just keep enduring.

I could no longer picture Rosalind in my mind's eye; the tender vision of the girl in white had been blown to pieces as if by a nuclear bomb. This was something unimaginable, something hollow as the yellowed husks that insects leave behind in dry grass, blowing with cold alien winds and a fine corrosive dust that shredded everything it touched.

You just give me one more good reason," Angela said to the house from the road, "and when I am finished with you, I will burn you to the fucking ground. Don't think I won't.

the causes and conditions that produce that phenomenon contain the seed for its destruction.

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

Er was niets veranderd in de straat, zag ze. Het was nog steeds dezelfde rustige straat die ze altijd had gekend. Hoe was het mogelijk dat levens totaal konden veranderen, konden worden vernietigd, terwijl straten en gebouwen hetzelfde bleven, vroeg ze zich af.

Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.

Guárdate de la ira del hombre bueno, pues es como el rayo que puede destruir una ciudad». Sin embargo, dejémosle que viva. Lo necesitamos como máscara.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys. — Chief Dan George

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

The child's problem is not an information deficit. His problem is that he is a sinner. There are things within the heart of the sweetest little baby that, allowed to blossom and grow to fruition, will bring about eventual destruction.

A brief experience with a Radcliffe girl got very bad very quickly. I was so destroyed by it that I left and went to Mexico for a semester, where I have cousins. I learned how to speak Spanish, which was really important for my life. It was wonderful going to Mexico, learning another culture and a language.

I'm not speaking in favor of killing innovation. I'm speaking in favor of centrist use of the market, which involves necessarily a considerable degree of regulation. Markets by themselves will get themselves inevitably into inequality and into their own destruction. It will happen again and again.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.