Quotes About Destruction

Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

They make a desert and call it peace.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Where they make a desert they call it peace.

Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.