Quotes About Destruction

How could a slight, five-foot-tall, two-legged animal create such sublimity and yet wreak so much havoc in so minuscule an interval of earth's history?

Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice.

I know that there are numberless people who would, to satisfy a whim, destroy God and all the universe.

O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

For I know that there are numberless people who, in order to gratify one of their appetites, would destroy God and the whole of the universe. If this art has never remained among men, although so necessary to them, it never existed, and never will exist.

I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.'" Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves.

This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

But without that spark of anger, without destruction, there can be no rebirth.

Soon I will take all you love and watch you burn. Sweet dreams, Object Reader.

What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.

Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.

He had destroyed her, so why couldn't she destroy him in return?

Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn't afraid.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.