Quotes About Destruction

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

I don't know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I'll be so stinking rich, I'll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.