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Quotes About Destruction

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
~ Abigail Disney
I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.
~ Julien Baker
Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.
~ Liu Cixin
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.
~ Paul Hawken
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.
~ Douglas Murray
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Unfortunately, the diplomatic destruction Netanyahu is causing will lead Israel to lose its Jewish majority and become a binational state. This unfortunate fact is something no law can hide.
~ Isaac Herzog
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.
~ Frederick Lenz
Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.
~ Edward Bernds
The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
~ Compton Gage
Jealousy destroys the Moral competence to be Successful
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.
~ Auliq-Ice
Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.
~ Erol Ozan
Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.
~ Gemma Malley, The Legacy
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
~ Lillian Wald
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.
~ Georges Pompidou
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.
~ Gary Paulsen
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.
~ Pope Pius XI