Quotes About Destruction

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

Only the destructive forces know death as lord. Only spiritual forces know life as the Lord. Know ye the Lord!

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Non so con quali armi si combatterà la Terza guerra mondiale, ma la Quarta sì: con bastoni e pietre

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a moustrap.

Creo que la negativa al servicio militar por razones de conciencia, en caso que fiera hecha por cincuenta mil soldados, sería un poder irresistible. El individuo solo no puede obtener mucho. Aunque tampoco puede ser deseable que justamente los seres de más valor sean objeto de la destrucción por parte de esa maquinaria detrás de la cual se esconden tres grandes poderes: Imbecilidad, Temor y Codicia.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

De qué sirven la verdad, la belleza o el conocimiento cuando las bombas de ántrax llueven del cielo?

CH3C6H2(NO2)3 + Hg(CNO)2 = ¿a qué? Un enorme agujero en el suelo, un montón de ruinas, algunos trozos de carne y de mucus, un pie, con la bota puesta todavía, que vuela por los aires y aterriza, ¡plas! entre los geranios, los geranios rojos... ¡Qué espléndia floración, aquel verano!

The work of a hundred years destroyed in a single night. And yet the fact remained - the fact of the ending of sorrow as well as the fact of sorrow.

To argue:...only causes us to fall into the pit of Because, and there to perish with the dogs of Reason.

yet of their own poison do they perish

All that was ordered and stable is shaken. The Æon of Wonders is come. Like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of the Star and the Snake, and they shall eat up everything that is upon the earth. For why? Because the Lord of Righteousness delighteth in them. (16:6)

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm.

Hemos removido la tierra de una forma tan violenta que hemos vuelto a despertar la crueldad de los niños

per capire cosa vuol dire che la verità si concede solo all'orrore, e che per raggiungerla abbiamo dovuto passare da questo inferno, per vederla abbiamo dovuto distruggerci l'un l'altro, per averla abbiamo dovuto diventare belve feroci, per stanarla abbiamo dovuto spezzarci di dolore. E per essere veri abbiamo dovuto morire. Perché? Perché le cose diventano vere solo nella morsa della disperazione?

They're smart enough to know the one thing a person values most in the house, and they may purposefully decide to smash

The terrorist organizations were an enemy with philosophies of political and religious fanaticism leaving no room for compromise or peace. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, the world would be a better place if they were all destroyed. If

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.