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Quotes About Destruction

Religion is a sublime and glorious thing, the bond of society on earth, and the connector of humanity with the Divine nature; but there is nothing so dangerous to man as the wresting of its principles, or forcing them beyond their due bounds: this is above all others the readiest way to destruction.
~ James Hogg
There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...
~ James Hurst
What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?
~ James Joyce
England is in the hands of the jews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are the signs of a nation's decay. Wherever they gather they eat up the nation's vital strength. I have seen it coming these years. As sure as we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is dying.
~ James Joyce
What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction? A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy. His pride in his own sin, his loveless awe of God, told him that his offence was too grievous to be atoned for in whole or in part by a false homage to the All-seeing and All-knowing.
~ James Joyce
What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction?
~ James Joyce
England is in the hands of the jews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are the signs of a nation's decay. Wherever they gather they eat up the nation's vital strength. I have seen it coming these years. As sure as we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is dying.
~ James Joyce
The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...
~ James K. Morrow
The Confederates accidentally set their own city afire when they burned supplies to keep them from Union hands. The flames spread out of control and reduced much of the capital to ruins.
~ James L. Swanson
A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
~ James Lee Burke
But I do believe there are people in our midst who wish to make a graveyard of the world, and their motivation may be no more complex than that of an angry child flinging scat because he was left with regularity in a dirty diaper.
~ James Lee Burke
drunk feels for his glass. It is stronger and worse than any sexual desire, any fear of hell, any allegiance to family, country, or church.
~ James Lee Burke
The last bartender I called had picked me up out of an alley behind a B-girl joint in Lafayette's old Underpass area, a one-block collection of buildings that was so stark and unrelieved, whose inhabitants were so lost and disconnected from the normal world, that if you found yourself drinking there, you could rest assured you had finally achieved the goal you long ago set for yourself: the total destruction of the innocent child who once lived inside you.
~ James Lee Burke
included the destruction of any property or other resources used to sustain Confederate armies as well as of those armies themselves.
~ James M. McPherson
I vill now destroy de Snickuhs bahs!-Gazzy
~ James Patterson
Bombs are good. I love bombs.--Iggy
~ James Patterson
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?
~ James Patterson
What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?
~ James Patterson
But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of that? No. I frowned. Leave that to the grown-ups. But grown-ups are the ones destroying the world, the Voice said. Think about it.
~ James Patterson
I like watching your...power, Dylan said. You're a beautiful flyer. Your hair is streaming through the air like silk ribbon. The sun is shining on your feathers. And I'm just glad to be here, with you. Even if we are trying to stop mass destrucion.
~ James Patterson
To warn you," I said. "Maestro intends to destroy the cartel and your family, Emmanuella. M intends to kill you all, rub out your bloodlines completely." "Not
~ James Patterson
The door doesn't have a knob, just a latch held closed by a chain, another victim of Dede's shears.
~ James Patterson
I believe in Jai Jawan Jai Kisan - a country where the farmer is unhappy is on its path towards destruction.
~ Gurpreet Ghuggi
I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
~ Klaus Schwab