Quotes About Destruction

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale. It's insane.

If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.

They started a great fire in the middle of the market, and from this fire they took burning logs and torches, and these they threw onto the roofs of most of the homes within a one-mile radius. The few men who resisted were shot. This was effectively the end of any kind of life in Marial Bai for some time. Again, the rebels for whom this was retribution were nowhere to be found.

the media truly is a cabal of hyperpartisan, habitual liars who are destroying an entire industry from within.

Death is hungry and Destruction is determined and it does not like its intended victims to get away.

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.

I don't like wannabe authoritarians who lie in order to destroy people who disagree with them. In that regard, I despise Stalin, too. Are you a fan of McCarthy's? Or are you not political? So many people aren't in this town. They apparently don't have the guts.

However, Pine knew that narcissism was probably one of the most dangerous traits someone could possess for one critical reason: The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another.

Was it a fire in the kitchen? No, a bomb in the basement.

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

vaporised thousands of people in the centre of Hiroshima, leaving their shadows scorched into the walls behind them

We were destroying any sense of civility and decency the four of us still had. We were no longer brothers and sisters. We were members of a gang.

This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.

OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST

The single thing that does the most to destroy forensic evidence at a fire scene is not the fire itself; it is an untrained, overzealous investigator armed with a rake.

Algo en mi sangre me dice que lo que destruimos era más bello que lo que buscábamos.

La violencia ha sido el martillo y el cincel de esta conquista, pero se llega a un punto en que ya nada puede la violencia: todo asalto despierta una avalancha, toda herida devuelve una enfermedad, todo crimen inicia una prodigiosa aniquilación, las respuestas de los dioses no se modulan con palabras comunes, y la furia de los humanos acaba por volverse contra sí misma

A thermonuclear bomb hitting it directly would have been more humane.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!