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Quotes About Destruction

Bastaba con que, en mi cabeza, creara la ficción de destruir el billete de avión y mi tierna amistad con Rinri se transformaba en un hostil espanto.
~ Amelie Nothomb
El examen del edificante lenguaje ajeno me llevó a la siguiente conclusión: hablar era un acto tan creativo como destructivo. Era mejor andarse con mucho cuidado con aquel invento.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Avanzó hacia mí con Hiroshima en el ojo derecho y Nagasaki en el izquierdo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Elle marcha vers moi, avec Hiroshima dans l'oeil droit et Nagasaki dans l'oeil gauche.
~ Amelie Nothomb
L'examen de l'édifiant langage d'autrui m'amena à cette conclusion: parler était un acte aussi créateur que destructeur. Il valait mieux faire très attention avec cette invention.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Io credo nel nemico. Le prove dell'esistenza di Dio sono deboli e bizantine, le prove del suo potere ancora più inconsistenti. Le prove dell'esistenza del nemico interiore sono evidenti e quelle del suo potere schiaccianti. Credo nel nemico perché, tutti i giorni e tutte le notti, lo incontro sul mio cammino. Il nemico è quello che dall'interno distrugge tutto ciò che vale.
~ Amelie Nothomb
El problema es la dimensión kamikaze de mis actos: me destruyo más a mí mismo que a mi objetivo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
~ Richard Leakey
The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.
~ David Harsanyi
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
~ Charles B. Rangel
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
~ Tommy Franks
Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.
~ William J. Perry
No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.
~ Michael Scheuer
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
~ Stephen Harper
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
~ Solomon Ortiz
We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.
~ Paul Cellucci
The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.
~ Christian Slater
It is important to signal that opposition to the use of any weapon of mass destruction is both deep and broad.
~ Richard N. Haass
President Donald J. Trump was right to strike at the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for using a weapon of mass destruction, the nerve agent sarin, against its own people.
~ Antony Blinken
Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them.
~ William Shawcross
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
~ George W. Bush
To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'
~ Erik Larson