Quotes About Destruction

The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?

The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals, but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance.

The drugs don't destroy brain cells so much as they . . . eat away at their souls, leave them empty and purposeless.

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

Fire is like greed, my comrade. It spreads across the world, thinking only of itself, seizing everything it sees, and ruining everyone's fun.

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work.

If everyone fought with fire, the entire world would go up in smoke.

I had seen buildings burn before, as part of my training and as part of my childhood. I had seen small homes and enormous mansions devoured by fire, and I had seen flames destroy factories and symphony halls and houses of worship. A school seems worse, I thought as the fire roared into the sky. Even when the school is empty, it's a terrible thing.

You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline.

The end of the world.

Godzilla— A skyscraper-sized, radioactively mutated lizard. Grocery

And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).

You've caused a lot of damage here

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

The bombing of the main islands of Japan was now possible, and in the most massive of the raids, a firebombing of Tokyo, more than eighty thousand people died in the huge inferno in a single night.

This time the destruction was so complete... That nothing at all was left in the world Except one man And one woman And one flower

In June 1906, the city council of Santa Ana, California, passed a resolution that called for the fire department to burn each and every one of the said buildings known as Chinatown; on June 26 a crowd of more than a thousand watched it burn.

Despite their continuing efforts of denial and revisionist interpretation, however, there is now widespread recognition that the Turkish destruction of the Armenians between 1915 and 1923 stands as the first "total genocide" of the twentieth century.

All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.

Humanity seeks the path of self destruction through its abnormal intellectualism and formation in rational habits.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief