Quotes About Destruction

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Man will be the death of life yet.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

A most important lesson taught by nature. Only after destruction there is construction. Only on letting go will new opportunities crop up.

They talk about vandalism, about the destruction of statues, but is not the destruction of so many wonderful young men who were polychrome statues of incomparable beauty also vandalism? Is not a city in which there are no more beautiful men like a city in which all the statuary has been destroyed?

Behold the word: Destroy, destroy, destroy. Destroy within yourself; destroy what surrounds you. Make space for your soul and for all other souls. Destroy all good and all evil. Their ruins are the same. Destroy the old dwellings of man and old the dwellings of the soul; what is dead is a distorting mirror. Destroy, for all creation comes from destruction. And for higher benevolence you must annihilate lower benevolence. And thus new good appears saturated with evil.

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

There is no strength but that which is destructive, because man has lost his virtues, and only respects force, which he himself cannot counteract.

The cruise missiles had softened up the area, but that was only the start. The real heavyweight punch from the world's only superpower would come in the form of a gigantic bomb — the BLU-82B/C-130, known as Commando Vault in Vietnam and now nicknamed Daisy Cutter.

Carthage must be destroyed.

For as fashionable as cynicism always was, the truth was that when it came to basic human responsibility, people rose to the challenge. Pretty much always. As many times as Hell had been created, history stood as indisputable proof that the mass of humanity was good. People built more than they burned, created more than they destroyed, not by a little but by a massive surplus. To know it, all you needed to remember was that we had started as chimpanzees—and then look around.