Quotes About Destruction

Negativity is like burning plastic: while destroying itself, it annoys everyone with its stench.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.

We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.

There's a reason there aren't any fifty-five-year-old terrorists, or at least there weren't until they all started watching Fox News. Destroying things is for the young.

The suppression of awareness required by our universal practice of commodifying, enslaving, and killing animals for food generates the "built-in mental disorder" that drives us toward the destruction not only of ourselves but of the other living creatures and systems of this earth. Because this practice of exploiting and brutalizing animals for food has come to be regarded as normal, natural, and unavoidable, it has become invisible.

He withers all in silence, and in his hand Unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consumeThe entire combustible world in one small room.

A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.