Quotes About Destruction

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it.

Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!

From what I can see of humans, you often destroy wonderful things in the pursuit of something that your delusions make you think is more wonderful.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that's so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.