Quotes About Destruction

Stevie: (Not listening) That you can do these two things... and not understand how it... SHATTERS THE GLASS!!?? How it cannot be dealt with-how stop and forgiveness have nothing to do with it? and how I am destroyed? How you are? How I cannot admit it though I know it!? How I cannot deny it because I cannot admit it!? Cannot admit it, because it is outside of denying!?

as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or negligence of mankind;

For what fortress, (added Attila,) 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?

How do you even choose what to mend when so much has already been destroyed? How could she think, she asked herself, that she could revive or save anything?

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

I don't know [what weapons will be used in the Third World War]. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth — rocks!

This new phenomena [atomic energy] would also lead to the construction of bombs…. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Fiesta de la autodestrucción —imposible, imposible cualquier cosa, todo imposible, imposible el amor, todo imposible,

rechazo a la inversa. Acepto para destruir. Digo sí para acentuar mi negación tácita.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Veramente, la distruzion de' frulloni, la devastazion de' forni, e lo scompiglio de' fornai, non sono i mezzi più spicci per far vivere il pane; ma questa è una di quelle sottigliezze metafisiche, che una moltitudine non ci arriva.

For the student of war, the Horn of Africa offers a cornucopia of violence and destruction. It has interstate wars and civil wars; international military interventions and maritime piracy; genocidal massacres and non-violent popular uprisings; conventional wars fought in trenches and irregular wars fought by jihadists and followers of a messianic cult.

I wished it were a tidal wave, a tsunami, a hurricane that would destroy everything and carry me away

Destruction of war memorials is collective punishment for descendants of the war dead and an attempt at damnatio memoriae. Revenge against history ensures there will be no peaceful future.

Destroying art is practice for destroying people.

Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.

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