Quotes About Destruction

What men yearn for they often destroy.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.