Quotes About Destruction

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.

If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of contempt, the hatred - on which it is based), fundamental historical, social, economic, and technological forces need to be pondered, understood, and redirected. Behavior won't change much without a fundamental change in consciousness. The question becomes: How do we change consciousness?

The notions of creation, preservation and destruction in Hindu mythology thus deal with culture, not nature.

Brahma is God who creates all forms, hence is called the creator; but he has not yet found the perfect form and is still yearning and searching, making him unworthy of worship. Vishnu is God who has realised that no form is perfect and so works with the limited forms. This is why he is called the preserver and is worshipped in various forms. Shiva is God who breaks free from all forms, having found all of them limited, hence he is the destroyer who is worshipped as the linga.

Thus, metaphysically, Kalki will destroy everything, even death. He will destroy all structures so that none exist. In other words, he will herald Pralaya.

Insulting the other destroys the other's emotional body; praising oneself destroys one's intellectual body.

Shiva's reluctance to marry is a consistent theme in Shaiva lore. In effect he opposes the birth of the cosmos, preferring the blissful state in which matter is in a state of entropy and the spirit is free of form. Not surprisingly, he is called the god of destruction.

Countless houses were reduced to big piles of bricks and wood, which is sort of what houses are, anyway, but in a different order.

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

She said several times that Malcolm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. (I thought devils and fiends might flourish there, actually.)

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

Jesus does not want to be the only perfect human being at the expense of humankind. He does not want, as the only guiltless one, to ignore a humanity that is being destroyed by its guilt; he does not want some kind of human ideal to triumph over the ruins of a wrecked humanity.

Only from this point of view can it be proved that Hitler and his gang were not only the destroyers of Europe but also traitors to their own country; and, further, that men can lose their country if it is represented by an anti-Christian régime.

Falsehood' is the destruction of, and hostility to, reality as it is in God; anyone who tells the truth cynically is lying.

Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

Did they contribute to the destruction? Did they cause the pollution? J: They were misguided. It's sort of like what's happening on Earth. People are misguided by the behaviors of other people's greed, and it wasn't recognized in time.

So it's confused. A: It is. D: It doesn't really belong there? A: No. It is just being what it is, but it is destroying worlds. In its normal place there are other sets of laws where it exists with others like it. And there it would not be destructive. It's a different space, a different dimensional reality.

The people who would destroy themselves would be dangerous to others.

Everything that the coils of Pentex touched, everything it produced, was corrupt or toxic.

All his life had been based on this hostile kind of strength; a strength that viewed the world as a thing to master, to overcome, to fight. As a problem that might be solved by destroying. It seemed faintly ridiculous to him now; and he found it difficult to remember that a life could be based on such fear. There could, he thought , be no impulse to destruction that was not rooted in some terrible fear, and he was no longer afraid.

Que aquel Jesús Nazareno ha de destruir este lugar, y mudar las tradiciones u observancias que nos dejó ordenadas Moisés.

Across the continent since Europeans first arrived, 92 per cent of old-growth forest has been destroyed. The

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.