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Quotes About Destruction

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
~ Martha Gellhorn
The fear syndrome [a species of propaganda], by exaggerating Vietcong power for destruction, misplaces the real pain of the real war, and is immensely dangerous. It leads to hysteria, to hawk-demands for a bigger war; it pushes us nearer and nearer to World War Three. The fear syndrome in no way serves the American cause; it can only jeopardize more American lives, with the ultimate risk of jeopardizing all life.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Fucking up a planet, even part of a planet, for no reason was kind of a big deal, and I was surprised they had gotten away with it. Okay, no, I wasn't surprised.
~ Martha Wells
I wanted to find a bunch more algae-smelling gray snotty assholes and kill the shit out of every single one.
~ Martha Wells
Trying to make sense of evil will only give you a headache. Evil is for evil's sake, period. Its only goal is chaos and destruction.
~ Martha Williamson
Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Hitler's entourage quickly learned what he had in mind. On September 9 Colonel Eduard Wagner discussed the future of Poland with Hitler's Army Chief of Staff, General Halder. 'It is the Führer's and Goering's intention', Wagner wrote in his diary, 'to destroy and exterminate the Polish nation. More than that cannot even be hinted at in writing.
~ Martin Gilbert
Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
~ Martin H. Fischer
The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.
~ Martin H. Fischer
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
~ Martin Luther
And Dan. 8:25 also writes concerning the Antichrist that he will kill the majority of people not through poverty but through an abundance of everything.
~ Martin Luther
Yes, with a feeling of pity and sympathy the godless are to be destroyed or struck down by us as we remember that we are the instrument of God and are ourselves perhaps to be cast as a whip into the fire after we have blasted the evildoers.
~ Martin Luther
RaÅ£iunea este cea mai mare târf? a Diavolului; din fire ÅŸi prin felul de a fi, este o târf? d?un?toare; este o prostituat?, târfa desemnat? a Diavolului; târf? mâncat? de râie ÅŸi lepr?, care ar trebui c?lcat? în picioare ÅŸi distrus?, ea ÅŸi înÅ£elepciunea ei… Ar merita s? fie aruncat? în cel mai murdar loc al casei, în toalet?.
~ Martin Luther
There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.
~ Unknown
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
~ Martin Scorsese
It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.
~ Martin Shaw
Everything that exists perishes, everything that has been created by those who perish will be destroyed. One inevitably leads to the other, one can never return to the primordial.
~ Unknown
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679
~ Martina Cole
Doctor Harleen Quinzel, one of Arkham's most brilliant and dedicated psychiatrists, was no more. Electroshock. What a wonderful way of destroying a soul, the Joker thought as he watched Quinzel's eyes roll up into their sockets and dribble pour from between her lips.
~ Unknown
Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.
~ Unknown
You do realize that you are a termite. You are eating through my soul.
~ Unknown
THE LONG SIEGE, and final destruction, of Carthage in 146 BCE was gruesome even by ancient standards, with atrocities reported on both sides. The losers could be as spectacularly cruel as the victors.
~ Mary Beard