Quotes About Destruction

War breeds many sins (…)

Zeus' thunderbolts still smelled of singed flesh and patricide.

Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.

Agnes would like to tear it all down, rip it up, hurl it to the wind.

Premodern peoples are said to have no creative ability and anti-modern fundamentalists are said to have a profound ability to be destructive. The destruction is taken as proof that they have no appreciation for human life, including their own.

Unfortunately, however, weapons of mass destruction tend to attract maniacs: men - it's almost always men - who want to jab the red button and yell "Take that, you heathen infidel bastards!" and sit in their revolving chairs in underground lead-lined bunkers or caves, watching on their monitors World War III or the Final Jihad or whatever.

We should just bomb them back to the Stone Age.

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

Abandoned weapons and corpses may be washed away, removed by animals, dismembered by the victors as trophies, or buried, burned, or otherwise disposed of by the vanquished after defeat. It is reasonable to expect that direct archaeological evidence of warfare will be limited, and that it will actually tend to underestimate the frequency and bloody nature of past conflicts.

That's the trouble with people like you, Knight, you only know how to mock. How to break things. You don't know how to create anything. You never did.

In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in any way with slavery or the slave trade; a nation-wide burning of the books.

La injusticia que causa los sufrimiento sociales es, en el fondo, la más terrible maquinaria de destrucción de las almas.

Les méchants faits détruisent les belles théories.

Ölen bir anne, yanan bir kitapl?kt?r.

When Charlemagne began his long campaign against the Saxons in 772, he destroyed

The attackers rounded off their successful mission by destroying the viking fleet,

twenty years since the arrival of the great heathen army that had destroyed three of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

But Æthelstan was less fortunate in death than Cuthbert, and during the Reformation his remains were destroyed

He destroyed the pagans with great slaughter,' says Asser,

Destruction is also creation.

Ma quando di un lontano passato non rimane più nulla, dopo la morte delle creature, dopo la distruzione delle cose, soli e più fragili ma più vivaci, più immateriali, più persistenti, più fedeli, l'odore e il sapore permangono ancora a lungo, come anime, a ricordare, ad attendere, a sperare, sulla rovina di tutto, a sorreggere senza tremare - loro, goccioline quasi impalpabili - l'immenso edificio del ricordo.

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself