Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that he used - which is not the case for any other president, including the current one - Barack Obama.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.