Quotes About Destruction

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

She had been told of a thing that sounded like a locomotive. And that thing was a flood.

that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces

Harmony enables small things to flourish – while the lack of it destroys the great.