Quotes About Destruction

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Membenci orang lain adalah laksana membakar rumah kita sendiri untuk mengusir seekor tikus.

One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

Ik denk dat hij het oog van de cycloon wilde zijn. Rondom wordt alles verwoest door orkanen, maar in het oog is het schitterend weer met een blauwe hemel.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima…. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

Means of destruction hitherto unknown, against which there can be no adequate military defense, and in the employment of which no single nation can in fact have a monopoly.

Lee stepped over two bodies in gray and one in green, walked inside. The fellow whose head and torso he had seen from the street had fought from a window here. Bullets had chewed up the wall opposite that window; the picture that hung there was no longer recognizable. One of the bandsmen who guarded Lee looked around and said, "Take away the dead men and it ain't so very peculiar

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Industrialists, who turn the Amazonian jungle into useless tundra or cement over half the planet, are not, for some reason, machine-gunned en masse, nor captured and exhibited, nor do they have their teeth extracted and carved into little men.

I sort of......accidentally....tore it to pieces. And threw it in the fire. Well, he was mine after all.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

he wondered again how they managed to tear each other apart so completely.

In more than one ambuscade, man, that sublime ape, has already pierced my breast with his porphyry lance: a soldier does not exhibit his wounds however glorious they may be. This terrible combat will bring down much sorrow upon the heads of the two parties: two friends striving obstinately to destroy one another: what a drama!

the biggest damage to the Baghdad Zoo had not been done in battle, fierce as it had been. It was the looters. They had killed or kidnapped anything edible and ransacked everything else. Even the lamp poles had been unbolted, tipped over, and their copper wiring wrenched out like multicolored spaghetti. As we drove past, we could see groups of looters still at it, scavenging like colonies of manic ants.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

La destrucción de las fuerzas armadas del enemigo era un medio para conseguir un fin,

What disturbs Katniss most is the psychology behind the weapons- that they are talking about placing booby-trapped explosives near food and water supplies and, even worse, creating two-stage devices that result in greater destruction of life by playing on that most human of emotions: compassion. The first bomb goes off, and then when rescue workers come in to aid the wounded and dying, a secondary device explodes.

was how he imagined a rose garden would smell if somebody covered it with fertilizer, doused it with gasoline, set it on fire, and then put out the flames with buckets of horse piss.

building and most of the city block were destroyed

So punk wasn't about decay, punk was about the apocalypse. Punk was about annihilation.