Quotes About Destruction

We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve. Anyway, they were more indulgent toward us than at any other time; they snapped at the heels of the seniors, driving and molding and arming them for the war. They noticed our games tolerantly. We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

How are the mighty fallen!

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

So what made you think you could just take a life and push it around? I guess to build yourself up so high, you had to take her, and break her down.

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.

Were allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroys us.

This is how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.