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Quotes About Destruction

Finally, under Mao Zedong the project of destroying the old core of Chinese identity was carried to a grim conclusion with a violent and totalistic resolve. But, like a forest fire that clears the way for new growth, it may have ironically also helped prepare the way to usher in a spectacular new kind of economic growth under his successor, Deng Xiaoping.
~ Unknown
America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.
~ Osama bin Laden
They were happy, the two of them. I'd been a fool to come between them. I might destroy them both if I were not careful. A humble happiness. A good mother and child. God, I thought, if you listen to the prayers of people like myself, grant me happiness once, only once in my whole lifetime will be enough! Hear my prayer!
~ Osamu Dazai
Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love I must destroy. I must start a revolution.
~ Osamu Dazai
Destruction is tragic and piteous and beautiful. The dream of destroying, building anew, perfecting. Perhaps, even, once one has destroyed, the day of perfecting may never come, but in the passion of love, I must destroy.
~ Osamu Dazai
I tell you, those shit-eating bastards, with their primping and posing and pompous speeches, have gone and destroyed the whole country. If they'd all been timid, bashful little fellows, we wouldn't be in this mess today.
~ Osamu Dazai
Y?k?c?l?k hem trajik hem de harikulade bir ?ey. Y?kmak,yeniden yapmak,mükemmelle?tirmek dü?ü !
~ Osamu Dazai
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.
~ Osamu Tezuka
Selagi peradaban berkembang, begitu pula nafsu. Api akan membesar terus dan menyebabkan berbagai malapetaka. Pada akhirnya seluruh dunia akan binasa. Jika manusia ingin selamat, api harus dipadamkan. Itu berarti meredam nafsu dan hidup wajar.
~ Osamu Tezuka
The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.
~ Oskar Schindler
If I build my life on the things which God did not form He will have to destroy them, shake them back into chaos. That is why whenever a man, moral or immoral, sees for the first time the light of God in Jesus Christ it produces conviction of sin, and he cries out, 'Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
~ Oswald Chambers
When we are in an unhealthy condition either physically or emotionally, we always look for thrills in life. In our physical life this leads to our efforts to counterfeit the work of the Holy Spirit; in our emotional life it leads to obsessions and to the destruction of our morality; and in our spiritual life, if we insist on pursuing only thrills, on mounting up "with wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31), it will result in the destruction of our spirituality.
~ Oswald Chambers
War is the creator, hunger the destroyer, of all great things.
~ Oswald Spengler
World history is [the] conflict of nature in man and apart from man, akin to the other great spectacles of nature... the earthquake, the thunderstorm, the storm. The beauty of destruction, the greatness of the will to win.
~ Oswald Spengler
Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, grenades, bombs, holes, bodies, blood, Schnapps, rats, cats, gas, guns, dirt, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that's what war is. The Devil's work. Nothing but the work of the Devil!
~ Otto Dix
I love conservatism when it means the preservation of beautiful things, I love revolution when it means the destruction of vile ones.
~ Ouida
An evil life is a kind of death.
~ Ovid
Folk och härar han utplånar med sin vredes svärd. Domens tunga klockor dånar över mänskans värld.
~ Par Lagerkvist
That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be
~ Unknown
They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose. "Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon.
~ Unknown
My creation will be your destruction.
~ Unknown
Treacherousgenerals:look at my dead house,look at broken Spain.
~ Pablo Neruda
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
~ Pablo Picasso
O imperialismo sabe ou não sabe o que a União Soviética é capaz de fazer para nos defender? (...) Se errarem, destruirão o imperialismo até suas raízes, mas de nós também sobrará muito pouco; por isso temos que lutar pela paz com convicção.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II