Quotes About Destruction

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.