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Quotes About Destruction

The anxiety to destroy democracy rather than the keenness to bring the Nazis to power was what triggered the complex developments that led to Hitler's Chancellorship.
~ Ian Kershaw
When dragons fight, everyone burns.
~ Unknown
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
~ Ian McHarg
You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
~ Ian Rankin
A jolt, a white flash, a thunderclap, and the Hayate was torn apart—her bow floated one way, her stern the other, each section bobbing pitifully on the sea, and then both quickly sank, taking 168 men down with them. The battery's crew let out a full-throated cheer. "Knock it off, you bastards, and get back on the guns!" bellowed Platoon Sergeant Henry Bedell. "What do you think this is, a ball game?
~ Ian W. Toll
started to ask some hard questions of myself. All this death, all this pain—was there a higher purpose behind it? Was it God's way of making me feel the destruction I'd caused within someone else's family?
~ Unknown
Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet Envy Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta Envidia La envidia devora las buenas obras, como el fuego devora el combustible.
~ Idries Shah
La preocupación es una nube de la que llueve destrucción.
~ Idries Shah
one of you saved my satori paper I know it piece by piece you pasted it back together now watch me burn it once and for all
~ Ikkyu
I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.
~ Unknown
Creation holds in its nature an ability to destruct.
~ Unknown
The destruction of a creation to create isn't true creation.
~ Unknown
I want to love you and worship you but you are too powerful and there is fear in my praises. If you can destroy or create worlds by a mere manifestation of thought, my feeble prayers could serve you no useful purpose. If when it pleases you, you can send cholera to ravage cities, or death to bear away in his talons without distinction the four ages of life, I wish to form no alliance with a friend so formidable.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Rev. Pat Robertson says that if more states legalize gay marriage, God will destroy America. He did say that afterwards, gays will come in and do a beautiful renovation.
~ Conan O'Brien
Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.
~ Conn Iggulden
Your people will be torn from the land for this, Tartar. Your gers will burn and your herds will be scattered.
~ Conn Iggulden
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; it lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; it covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.
~ Conrad Aiken
Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
~ Conrad Aiken
Where they make a desert, they call it peace.
~ Unknown
I've seen men ruined by drink, drugs and dodge pickup trucks, but this is the first time I've seen someone ruined by softcore porn...
~ Craig Johnson
Greed and ego are too often the downfall of mankind
~ Unknown
But sometimes, the things you wanted most were the things that would destroy you.
~ Unknown