Quotes About Destruction

This is what the beginning of the end of the world will look like

Ese adicto al crack podía fumarse cualquier cantidad de dólares con la velocidad de un demonio.

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

Il mondo intero era ridotto a polvere e cenere; e la mia anima era nelle stesse condizioni.

To-day the claims of the masses are becoming more and more sharply defined, and amount to nothing less than a determination to utterly destroy society as it now exists, with a view to making it hark back to that primitive communism which was the normal condition of all human groups before the dawn of civilisation.

Sans les traditions, pas de civilisation; sans la destruction de ces traditions, pas de progrès.....Ce n'est pas dans les temples qu'habitent les idoles les plus redoutables, ni dans les palais les tyrans les plus despotiques; ceux_ci peuvent être brisés en un instant; mais les maîtres invisibles qui règnent dans nos âmes échappent à tout effort de révolte, et ne cèdent qu'à la lente usure des siècles

Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture—all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising.

In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall.

Believers always break the statues of their former gods with every symptom of fury.

Poverty means death," Gustavo writes. This death, however, is not only physical but mental and cultural as well. It refers to the destruction of individual persons, peoples, cultures, and traditions.

without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

A song remembers a home, another conjures fear that home will fall to those who would destroy it. A poet places wine glasses on a fountain's rim under stars. An artist sets his lost wife on a dome . . . amid stars. A dancer lets the music be what she is, until it stops. Someone made the music, someone plays it while she dances.

They will only bring it down!" The secretary's voice was uncomprehending. Crispin did turn then, to look back over his shoulder. They were staring at him, the three of them, so were the others in the Sanctuary. He said, "I understand. But they will have to DO that. Bring it down. I will make what I make, in this civilized, holy place. Others will have to give the orders to destroy. As barbarians once destroyed Rhodias...since it could not defend itself.

Fear any and all of these things," Ra-Tenniel said. "The tearing of our threads from the Loom, the unsaying of our histories, the unraveling of the Weaver's design.

against Romans based upon conclusions about its causes, course, and outcome. The story of the Temple's destruction is often seen as the paradigmatic, if not unprecedented, warning or lesson for Jews and others. Sin will be punished; great sin will be greatly punished.61

The war between Jews and Romans was fought with great ferocity by both sides, and it led to suffering, death, and destruction on a scale for which we have no other comparable testimony in the history of the early Roman empire, even if Josephus, its historian, exaggerated casualty figures on both sides. Yet some scholars have downplayed the scale and significance of the war of Jews against Romans. This book will prove that the war was not small, short,

But whether the death is that of a tubercular husband in "The Moon on the Water," a mystical figure such as Y?ko in Snow Country, or the drugged girl lying beside an old man in House of the Sleeping Beauties, death always has richly poetic implications in Kawabata's work, in contrast to the meticulously clinical deteriorations in Tanizaki's novels and the murderous destruction in Mishima's.

Nem is a cári rendszert készült Lenin megdönteni, úgy gondolta, majd csak megd?l magától is, hanem a rendszerrel szembenálló többi er?t akarta megfojtani, mert bel?lük lesznek a vetélytársak. Az akarnoksága diadalához persze kellett a világháború, hogy az ország '17-re szellemileg és fizikailag tönkremenjen. Ami az országból megmaradt, azt az októberi puccs után módszeresen szétverték.

for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing comes of it. Besides, at the same time she is also busy burning old books, manuals, professional papers, theoretical volumes--because they keep her from doing the one thing that now seems urgent and right to her: shouting her loud hymn of ecstatic pleasure, breaching the tide of the old tongue's hard blare.

I'm sorry, Prince Edvard. You had a wonderful civilization here on Marduk. You could have made almost anything of it. But it's too late now. You've torn down the gates; the barbarians are in.

But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing would be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless—all would be lost like the lost books of Livy, or wrecked as the English wrecked the Summer Palace in Pekin.

One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can tear them down to nothing.

Lets see what did it cost you for destroying Your House (Capital) 1. Jail time 2. Attorney Fees. 3 Court Fees. 4. Your Freedom. The list goes on. YA should of stayed home and destroyed your own house it would of been Cheaper!! Just saying.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction