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Quotes About Destruction

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.
~ Herb Goldberg
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
~ Hesiod
The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence.
~ Ilona Andrews
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
~ J. G. Holland
I vill destroy de snickers bar!" Gazzy(The Gas Man)
~ James Patterson
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.
~ John Steinbeck
This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.
~ John Steinbeck
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.
~ Paul the Apostle
We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.
~ Mark Boyle
All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.
~ Mickey Cohen
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
~ Sophocles
After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
~ W. S. Merwin
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
~ Ludwig von Mises
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
~ Ron Chernow
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.
~ Ayn Rand
I burn the way money burns.
~ Anne Sexton
Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you
~ Pope Francis
Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
~ Sophocles
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
~ Alice Walker
Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.
~ Steven Magee
Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
~ Robert Duvall
i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.
~ Rod Stewart