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Quotes About Destruction

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
~ Frank Herbert
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
~ Daniel Webster
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.
~ George Monbiot
Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.
~ George Charles Roche III
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
~ G. Edward Griffin
The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.
~ Charles Addams
And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.
~ Markus Zusak
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
~ André Gide, The Immoralist
but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.
~ Clarice Lispector
before destroying, please create one same
~ litymunshi
What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.
~ Andre Gide
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
~ Denis Diderot
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
~ Ray Davies
[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.
~ Rick Santorum
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.
~ Dave Navarro
Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Healthcare has been much worse. George W. Bush was destroying the health care system. Obamacare, all it's like doing is keeping prices from going up more rapidly.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.
~ Niki de St. Phalle
So help me, I won't rest until I bathe in your entrails! (Apollymi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's a thin line between saving someone and helping them destroy themselves
~ Lara Zielin, The Waiting Sky
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
~ George Orwell
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
~ William Morris