Quotes About Destruction

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.' — Albert Einstein

Wenn die Menschen gewisse Exemplare ihrer eigenen Gattung aus Bosheit oder aus Unverstand, aus Gleichgültigkeit oder aus Angst vernichten müssen, dann fällt uns, bestimmt, vernichtet zu werden, eine unglaubliche Fähigkeit zu. Die Freiheit, die Menschen zu lieben und uns selbst nicht zu hassen.

Es ist so eingerichtet, daß nicht nur die, die Unrecht erdulden müssen, auch die, die Unrecht tun, ihres Lebens nicht froh werden. Überhaupt frage ich mich, ob die Lust, andere Leben zu zerstören, nicht daher kommt, daß man am eigenen Leben so wenig Lust und Freude hat.

Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally mutilated rose garden. It was a mature tree standing maybe eight feet tall, producing lots of oranges. It was covered with fruit. The nurse, the cook, and I stood at a kind of breathless attention watching her as she began to saw the trunk of the orange tree! Finally we heard a cracking, splintering sound and the orange tree toppled over into the stubby remains of the rose garden.

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.

When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.

But it is the repetition, from all walks of life, that slowly destroys, turns the looking-glass into a mirror, distorting or true, both cruel.

Dans l'immédiat on peut poser que la libération des femmes ne se fera sans la destruction totale du système de production et de reproduction patriarcale.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships/And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

Mom's got this secret fear that if you don't control your life, if you don't control your man, he will eventually destroy you.

What has since happened in Tibet is hardly to be believed. More than 1.2 million Tibetans lost their lives and of about six thousand monasteries, temples, and shrines, 99 percent were either looted or totally destroyed. In

No matter how much we longed for the destruction of the Nazi regime, we could not remain undisturbed by the bombing raids, and none of us enjoyed them, out of fear for our nearest and dearest. The attacks would fall on towns where thousands of innocent people would lose their lives, people who had as much repulsion for the war as us concentration-camp victims.

Sometimes our passion is our ruin.

No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.

T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.

Hatred (is) a cancer in the mind. Hatred (is) an acid eating away the soul.

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

The Bolsheviks are coming, like Atilla, like clouds of locusts. They are destroying everything in their path. (Vera Muromtseva)

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

According to Miller, the goals of the Illuminati (Communism and the NWO) were the destruction of Christianity, monarchies, nation-states (in favor of their world government or "internationalism"), the abolition of family ties and marriage by means of promoting homosexuality and promiscuity; the end of inheritance and private property; and the suppression of any collective identity in the spurious name of "universal human brotherhood," i.e. "diversity." (p.185)