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Quotes About Obliteration

On Twitter we make our own decisions about who deserves obliteration. We form our own consensus, and we aren't being influenced by the criminal justice system or by the media. This makes us formidable.
~ Jon Ronson
Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.
~ Ray Bradbury
burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
~ Ray Bradbury
To the destruction of what is.
~ Joseph Conrad
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
We are born, we live, we suffer along the way, and then we die—obliterated for the rest of eternity. Our existence is but a blip in cosmic time and space.
~ David Benatar
They believe in "peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms".
~ Douglas Adams
On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
~ Douglas Adams
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)
~ Alan Dean Foster
An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
~ Marty Rubin
Destroying your enemies—even destroying a planet—was understandable. But this wasn't simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the Force had been shredded. Anyone capable of turning an entire planet into a nihilistic abomination had to be completely mad.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
It is not difference that dominates the world, but the obliteration of difference by mimetic reciprocity, which itself, being truly universal, shows the relativism of perpetual difference to be an illusion.
~ Rene Girard
disposal of the "inconvenient"
~ Alistair Horne
And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living.
~ Andre Dubus III
His animating principle, as the official history explained, was "that in order to destroy anything it is necessary to destroy everything." By the late fall of 1944, Harris claimed that forty-five of sixty listed German cities had been "virtually destroyed," at a rate of more than two each month, with a dwindling number awaiting evisceration.
~ Rick Atkinson
Our drive to keep and preserve seems to have achieved only the obliteration of self and memory.
~ Jenny Boully
Edgar Allan Poe once called the death of a beautiful woman "the most poetical topic in the world" and I've often found myself wondering how many woman writers who have killed themselves or let themselves be otherwise obliterated were trying, somehow, to fulfill this most popular of narratives. We're most valuable when we're smiling, dead, posing, our words hanging on the page with no real body behind them. I'm
~ Jessica Valenti
Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
~ Robert Kirkman
I drink to my annihilation.
~ Aldous Huxley
Total species elimination
~ Douglas E. Richards
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
~ Frank Herbert
Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks up, and flakes start to fall. Horizons shrink. Couples bicker. Cars slide off roads. Obliteration tends to loiter between the sentences.
~ Anthony Doerr
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The old gods go into the sun, into the fire, or they meet with obliteration through violence, or they bury themselves in the deepest earth never to rise again. But the Mother and the Father go on forever, and they do not speak.
~ Anne Rice