Quotes About Destruction

they create desolation and call it peace'

Unchecked competition eventually did more to destroy than to uphold the Republic.

On Pine Ridge and Rosebud they had communal cattle herds and some Indians were becoming ranchers in a small way. But the government was quick to destroy our budding economy. World War I broke out and in 1917 the white superintendent sold off our cattle "because it was needed for the war effort.

Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.

Wars will be increasingly more hypocrite, they will pass from the classical battle field to informatics systems counting new eases to be built or that are already built in secret, where there will be rockets with increasingly greater destruction potential.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

Cry havok and let slip the dogs of war!

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty- Which draws us together.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women.

but one thing was constant in all the versions I heard, the gods and angels destroyed the world when men aspired to be gods and mercy had fled their hearts.

gods and angels destroyed the world when men aspired to be gods and mercy had fled their hearts.

The relief of giving in to destruction.

Hoarding and wasting kept them out of Heaven And brought them to this barroom brawl; I won't try to prettify it with words.

It looks so peaceful," said Annie. "You can never be sure," said Jack. "Remember, Pompeii looked peaceful before the volcano went off.

She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone.

Alexias) 'You burned this and you kept no copy?' (Plato) 'When one offers to the gods, one brings a whole beast to the altar. If it was an image of what is not, then it was false and ought to be destroyed; and if of what is, then a little fire will not destroy it.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it.

The idea of a secret that will be revealed always results in one of two scenarios: death and destruction, or self-discovery and recovery beyond our wildest dreams of unification. And in the greatest of sagas, both at the same time.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Destructive complexes are often permitted to grow to a size where they can attack the soul and hold it hostage.

Hmph," she said. "It is called Mayhem for Boys: First Lessons in Wanton Destruction.

The destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of the human race, but many people seem to be convinced that even if humans should disappear, they will be brought to life again by the hand of their god. This idea, however, is nothing more than fantasy. The human race will not be born again. When the people on the earth have died out, there will be no God or Buddha to rescue them.

The one thing that troubles me is the ringing; it persists in my ear day and night, like the tolling of a distant temple bell, warning man of the folly of the bomb…. —