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Quotes About Destruction

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
~ Alva Myrdal
The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.
~ Plato
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
~ Robert McNamara
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
~ Nathaniel Borenstein
But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
~ Emily Giffin
Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.
~ T. B. Joshua
Fascism means first of all defending your nation against the dangers that threaten it. It means the destruction of these dangers and the opening of a free way to life and glory for your nation.
~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.
~ Elif Safak
The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
No, in the end, easier to tear it down and start over. The soundless scream of social media these days. The system must be destroyed. It can't be fixed. Unitopia must have begun to seem like a Band-Aid applied to a gaping chest wound.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring the stars, the omnipresent gasoline fumes, the thousand ways it presaged our destruction... none of these things appealed to me.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But I was not a domesticated animal. The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring the stars, the omnipresent gasoline fumes, the thousand ways it presaged our destruction... none of these things appealed to me.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
hair-raising attempts at destruction that included stabbings, careful burnings, deprivation of soil and water, introduction of parasites, general neglect, the emanation of hateful vibes, verbal and physical abuse, and much more.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Jedynym rozwiÄ…zaniem dla Å›rodowiska naturalnego jest zaniedbanie, które wymaga naszego upadku.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
would destroy the planet or save it? In its recognition of her, Ghost Bird knew that something would survive, that she would survive.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Perhaps because trees did not resist. Trees fell over on their own accord, sometimes, as if to prove their love for the ax. The chainsaw that felled most of them just completed a trees own inevitable thought.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
El quinto punto del amilenarismo es el carácter conclusivo de la Segunda Venida de Cristo. La única esperanza de salvación es ahora, antes de la Segunda Venida de Cristo. Él vendrá como ladrón en la noche, pero una vez que aparezca, los justos e injustos resucitarán de entre los muertos, el mundo será destruido por fuego, y todos tendrán que enfrentarse a Dios en el Juicio para ser arrojados al lago de fuego o para entrar en el reposo eterno de Dios.
~ Jeffrey D. Johnson
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field of, say, literary fiction can be just plain old-fashioned destruction when transferred to families yearning for faith at home.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.
~ Jello Biafra
The American infantry, it is said, has seized control of cities as close as Eisenach and Ehrfurt, ransacking and burning the houses, raping the women, worse than the Russians.
~ Jenna Blum
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The seconds pass. I know what's going on because it's the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or want or need, and I'll find a way to grind it into dust.
~ Jennifer Egan
He looks out over his back yard, what's left of it. With the forest gone, the property looks smaller than sixty acres, stripped and shrunken like a dog in the bath. Behind the house, the crew left a single patch of grass, twenty foot square. Beyond lies a vast expanse of bare earth, dry and cocoa-colored, enclosed with chain-link fence. A bleak view, but not half as bad as what lies over the hill. The
~ Jennifer Haigh