Quotes About Destruction

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war."

for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly

From Daniel chapter 9, verses 26 and 27. He will come out of the people who would destroy the city and the sanctuary.

The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings.

The world of the Druids had been destroyed and would not be revived. But the power of Rome was so much more brutal, more inhuman, more oppressive that it would not need an invasion to get rid of it. It withered because it was so hated by the people who had to endure it. And because most of them saw no point to it any more.

The ocean tosses up a thousand arms to embrace the storm that falls across her like a drunken sailor. His thunder slaps her thighs, his lighting piercing her waters. They pound me between the hips and I begin to panic, knowing their passion will destroy me.

We all want to change the world But when you talk about destruction Don't you know that you can count me out

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Whereas the unconscious colossus of real existence, subjectless capitalism, inflicts its destruction blindly, the deludedly rebellious subject is willing to see that destruction as its fulfillment, and, together with the biting cold it emits toward human beings misused as things, it also radiates the perverted love which, in the world of things, takes the place of love in its immediacy.

They murder so that whatever to them seems living, shall resemble themselves.

Even though laughter is still the sign of force, of the breaking out of blind and obdurate nature, it also contains the opposite element - the fact that through laughter blind nature becomes aware of itself as it is, and thereby surrenders itself to the power of destruction.