Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

It takes two to destroy a marriage.

Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.

I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia. And it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or I would call it unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them.

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Man does not live by destruction.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.