Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem.

If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.

Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.

Ignorance can stifle learning, especially if the ignorant person believes that he or she is not ignorant.

Ignorance is darkness.

Ignorance is the deepest sin of dark doom.

Ignorance is a limitation.

Ignorance is a very useful weapon in the hands of the devil against humanity, especially Christians.

Ignorance is what is destroying us and not the devil.

Ignorance leads to destruction.

Ignorance leads to economic failures.

Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.

Ignorance leads to low income.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust—What is it, but a miserably mortifying detail of crimes and follies?—of the guilt of a few, and the sufferings of many, while almost every page offers an argument in favor of what I never will believe—that heaven created the human race only to destroy itself.

In any case, he made me think the unheard-of: The world could go on after our destruction.

In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make.

I'm waltzing with the wrecking ball 'Cause this ain't my home anymore.

Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.

Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.

In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.

in these shitty plastic days ...

I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million or 40 million people because of a dispute between two nations who are running things, or decisions made by the people who really are running things. It no longer makes sense. Nobody wins. Nobody benefits from destructive war of this sort and there is all of this human suffering.' And Einstein was saying the same thing of course. So that is when we decided — my wife and I — that first, I was pretty effective as a speaker. Second, I better start boning up, studying these other fields so that nobody could stand up and say, 'Well, the authorities say such and such '.

Irresponsibility is a sin with a high price tag.

Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up?

It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to profit from it or whether this knowledge will not be harmful for it. The example of the discoveries of Nobel is characteristic, as powerful explosives have enabled man to do wonderful work. They are also a terrible means of destruction in the hands of great criminals who lead the peoples towards war. I am one of those who believe with Nobel that mankind will derive more good than harm from the new discoveries.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

I thought about how many elements it took to create the simplest of things - a pink sky an unusually perfect day, a happy family, a deep friendship, a moment of pure delight. I wondered, too, what it took to undo these things. It seemed to me that undoing something was far easier than creating it.

It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our continent.

It is like we are having a harvest of destruction in our society due to ignorance.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist".

It is not my purpose here to document the destruction caused by war [...] The point is to ask ourselves why these accounts have not had greater effect. [...] Why is it that many of us are deeply moved by visual art, fiction, and firsthand accounts of destruction and yet accept war as a means of resolving conflict or defending ourselves?

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

It is our business to proffer solution to the problem of the society.

It is our business to restore the earth back to God through the principles of the Kingdom.

It is our responsibility to enlighten our people.

It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change.

It is the people that are angry at the status quo that makes a decision to bring change.

It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.

It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.

It means that the lack of knowledge is the foundation for all life failures, destruction, depression, difficulties, hatred, bitterness, envy, etc.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota -- the lovely, the rare and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.

It’s like we are having a harvest of destruction in our nations, continent and world today, all because of ignorance.

It's not that other people seduce us. It's that we so desperately crave the destruction of our own lives.