Quotes About Destruction

I came to let you know, God is not going to his authenticity be destroyed.

It's a god-eat-god world.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

The hideous god of war.

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.