Quotes About Destruction

Oh! Money, money, money! The Frankenstein monster that destroys souls!

There was never a greater crime against humanity than the fourth crusade," says Stephen Runciman. It destroyed the treasures of the past and broke down the most advanced culture of Europe. Far from uniting Eastern and Western Christendom, it implanted in the Greeks a hostility toward the West that has never entirely disappeared, and it weakened the Byzantine defenses against the rising power of the Ottoman Turks, to whom they eventually succumbed.

The one who acts without knowledge, destroys and ruins more than he rectifies.

Sloping as gracefully as thighs, the foothills narrow to this, clouds over every town finally indicate the stored destruction.

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

If the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries were, in many countries of the West, times of accelerating social power, and a corollary increase in freedom, peace, and material welfare, the twentieth century has been primarily an age in which State power has been catching up—with a consequent reversion to slavery, war, and destruction.43 In

Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from spiritual synesthesia of insight into logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where mental gourmets gather cognitive hyperrealism of clarity, aesthetic awareness.

Philosophy and art are the taste of life, this is the cooking of symbolic subjectivism in search of pain from the spiritual insight of logical concreteness. Mental destruction for the sake of creating more perfect thinking. Where the mental gourmets of aesthetic awareness gather.

A needy God could end up destroying the universe one day. God is the Absolute. This means that he does not change and that he does not need anything from His creations.

Any system that aims to destroy, rather than to construct the world can't be considered to be good before any person who has a sound mind.

Destruction is necessary to recreate something or return it to its original form. Even the greatest creators, including God, must destroy while making something beautiful. Life is always followed by death.

For those who wish to transgress to another gender, they are truly the destroyers of this beautiful environment we are currently living in.

Religion is not a form of destruction in itself, but a blessing to those who have faith within them.

The beginning of God is in the definition of energy. We all know that it can't be created nor destroyed, except our God is the absolute one and not changeable in anything else.

The destruction of the United States is already visible, as the rights of the state eclipse the human rights.

The side effects of divorce can be seen between the relationship or commitment of the government and its citizens. Which usually leads to the destruction of the nation.

We end up creating more demons, multiplying chaos and destruction, adding more to the original number that descended from heaven.

Humans are designed to worship God and exercise responsibility in his world. But when humans worship idols instead, so that their image-bearing humanness corrupts itself into sin, missing the mark of the human vocation, they hand over their power to those same idols. The idols then use this power to tyrannize and ultimately to destroy their devotees and the wider world. But when sins are forgiven, the idols lose their power.

The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.

The power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I would've no doubt accepted it and it would've destroyed me from the inside out." "Before you," she whispered, "I was shut up inside my heart, protecting it from harm, and never knowing the glory I missed." She linked her hand in his. "You and I, we're a unit. I dare any evil on this earth to tear us apart.

You can't protect my sanity by destroying yours.

But sometimes, that depth of need—to save, to protect—can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.

And the archangels were not who they should be, and bodies rotted in the streets and blood rained from the skies as empires burned.

wanting her mind off the one subject that held the potential to destroy the bond between them. If she ran, he hoped she would do as he'd asked and make sure she didn't leave him alive. Because without Sahara, the world would learn what a child became when his trainer wove nightmares into his mind—of knives slicing into flesh, of women begging for their lives—then put the blade into his hand.