Quotes About Destruction
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
~ William Floyd
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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
~ Richard Flanagan
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
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In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.
~ Elvis Mitchell
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
~ Unknown
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Holz splitterte zierlich unter den Raupenketten, [...]
~ Unknown
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because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going to another world, I cry out, I want to be ME in it.
~ Unknown
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SCUM will become members of the unwork force, the fuck-up force; they will get jobs of various kinds and unwork... SCUM office and factory workers, in addition to fucking up their work, will secretly destroy equipment. SCUM will unwork at a job until fired, then get a new job to unwork at.
~ Valerie Solanas
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All of the world's peoples see evil in others, in foreigners and in their gods, and I fear there is no remedy for this. Thus they destroyed the most beautiful expressions of our civilization. Thus we destroy the most beautiful expressions of theirs.
~ Unknown
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The worldwide destruction of the feminine knowledge of agriculture evolved over four to five thousand years by a handful of white male scientists in less than two decades has not merely violated women as experts but, since their expertise is modeled on nature's system of renewability, has gone hand in hand with the ecological destruction of nature's processes and the economic destruction of poor people in rural areas.
~ Vandana Shiva
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CHAPTER TWO Science, Nature, and Gender The recovery of the feminine principle is an intellectual and political challenge to maldevelopment as a patriarchal project of domination and destruction, of violence and subjugation, of dispossession and the dispensability of both women and nature.
~ Vandana Shiva
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Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.
~ Vasily Grossman
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Only in return for death, destruction and grief as gifts can we see the paradise of independence.
~ Unknown
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It is impossible," I concluded, "to find any satisfaction in the thought of 25,000 slaughtered Germans, left to mutilation and decay; the destruction of men as though beasts, whether they be English, French, German or anything else, seems a crime to the whole march of civilization.
~ Vera Brittain
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I do not believe that a League of Nations, or a Kellog Pact, or any Disarmamnt Conference, will ever rescue our poor remnant of civilisation from the threatening forces of destruction, until we can somehow impart to the rational processes of constructive thought and experiment that element of sanctified loveliness which, like superb sunshine breaking through thunder-clouds, from time to time glorifies war.
~ Vera Brittain
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We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
~ Vera Farmiga
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Koire (Rosa) 'Agenda 21 is about destroying independence, culture, society, economy and human lives.
~ Unknown
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Fertile ether where the destruction of worlds is a single heart that burns itself out with love.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
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Love is a momentary destruction, a combustion that threatens the pure creature we love, the one who's wounded in our fire. But after we've pulled away from her unraveled flames and looked at her, we see clearly the new, re-formed and flawless life, the quiet, warm life that called to us from the sweet surface of her body. Here is love's perfect vessel, filled and overflowing with its serene and glistening golden blood.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
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There is energy released from within that carries with it the power to heal. First destruction, then creation… The fire burns through the old structures eradicating them, transmuting their energies to a higher vibrational level. Then the creative energy released from the destruction allows for the cure of whatever ails the body.
~ Unknown
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It's much easier to destroy a life than it is to live one.'
~ Unknown
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
~ Victor Hugo
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Does one unceasingly talk about a thousand years and enemies destroyed, if one is certain of these thousand years and this annihilation?
~ Victor Klemperer
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Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.
~ Savitri Devi
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