Quotes About Destruction

We have arsonists.

Everyone agreed that Lucian would ruin this.

Hatred smothers all beauty.

There was nothing wrong with progress, with the evolution of a society, with developments in technology, but when avarice directed progress, the natural order of a community was destroyed.

One way to destroy a personality is to cut out memory: one way to destroy a state is to cut out its history. Especially when that history comes out of the native language. Status is gone; continuity is disconnected;

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Her life is a wrecked boat torn apart for kindling and set ablaze to send a message to the sky from a deserted beach. From a distance the words spell SAVE ME. The closer the sign the clearer the statement. Turns out it says FUCK YOU.

la guerra convirtió la tierra en un cementerio.

Nor did I grasp the capacity of love's absence to destroy, that my lack of love for myself made my own life unbearable. You take someone whose life experiences have taught them they're worthless, string them out on drugs, and you have one miserable person. How could I have given what I didn't have? It's hard to value another life when you view your own as dispensable, hard to understand how you can have so great an effect on someone else when you don't think you matter.

The sack of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and the destruction of the temple prompted a massive exodus of Jews from the Holy Land.

any society or government that relies too heavily on technology will find itself perched perilously on a crumbling precipice over the valley of death and destruction.

The technology to control and destroy people always has in it the seeds of tyranny, and is forever subject to the lowest angels of human nature.

But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it's just not usually the best one.

some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

The global economy is destroying the world; steal it all and then charge your victims for the service, abandon humanity and save the financial institutions.

I think much of her - I mean my mother - and of how alike we were, and how we were both destroyed by believing it was in our own hands to punish those who had done wrong to us.

Love can corrupt and destroy, distort and betray – this I know from my own bitter experience; but I now also know that, without love, we are nothing.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.

Objects being easier to destroy than human beings, it is necessary at times to turn human beings into objects.

This in turn leaves the soul more frustrated and lonely than ever. Thus the primal lie begets destruction—worst of all, it does so in the name of love.

The symbolism—if symbolism it was—indicated that the witnesses were types of the Church herself. Would all those who truly followed the Lord enact with their lives what was described by these passages? Would the prayers of believers be the very instruments for bringing chastisements upon unbelieving mankind? Would the Church be apparently destroyed for three and a half years? Would she rise again as the breath of God entered her? And would she then be taken up into heaven?

If one is called to an unusual work in the Kingdom of God, it is necessary that the roots of pride be burned out as soon as possible, otherwise pride would destroy him. Pride is the death-bringer. It ruins everything, even the greatest works conceived with the highest ideals.