Quotes About Destruction

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

The terrorist lives for terror, not for the change he tells himself he wants. He masks his desire to kill and destroy behind the curtain of a cause. It is destruction he wants, not creation.

We're all responsible," he said presently to Laurie. "Law and order is a job for all of us. If we shirk it long enough we will have anarchy, and all we've built will be destroyed. It is like building a beautiful building and then turning a lot of wild animals into it and letting them go. "This is the old war, the war of civilization against the barbarian; of peacefulness, order, and hard work against the heedless, the cruel, the destructive.

The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy's capacity to resist.

Fire, man's first and faithful friend, and ever a potential enemy.

Better destroy the body than the soul.' ~Rosamond

She tore the letter to atoms.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Every world-destroying project disrupts something intimate, tangible, and Indigenous

He also saw competition as a destructive, inefficient force and instinctively favored large-scale combination as the cure.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

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Destroying the systems destroys the chaos.

The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible …." So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

Lo dice Sylvia Plath en sus diarios: «Soy ese tipo de mujer que, cuando empieza a llover [...], solo puede pensar en ventanas abiertas, ventanas de coche, ventanas de una segunda planta, ventanas por todas partes abiertas mientras la lluvia cae a raudales [...] echando a perder irremediablemente la madera, el papel de las paredes, los libros y los muebles».

We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.

Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South.

They slaughtered all the game they could find and so muddied the rivers and creeks with silt that the once plentiful salmon couldn't survive. The herds of elk and deer, the food source for Native Americans, were practically wiped out in one summer.

With traumatized Navajos watching, government agents shot sheep and goats and left them to rot or cremated them after dousing them with gasoline. At one site alone, thirty-five goats were shot and left to rot. One hundred fifty thousand goats and fifty thousand sheep were killed in this manner. Oral history interviews tell of the pressure tactics on the Navajos, including arrests of those who resisted, and express bitterness over the destruction of their livestock.

Já foi dito que a conquista da glória é um processo que se inicia com um impulso destrutivo e se encerra com a "obtenção de um triunfo vingador".

I cannot let things remain as they are, because then I would not be free. If I cease to act because I fear the future, then I create a worse enslavement for myself. That much I know. While my people are not free, I am not free. If the freedom and justice I seek loose destruction upon the earth, then I accept that responsibility, but it seems to me that the real responsibility must be borne by those who keep me from my freedom. I must act!

In some countries, I said to myself, the only life you can properly desire is that of destroyer.