Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

I deplore the death and destruction she [Hillary Clinton] caused-stupidity.

I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally.

If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now because you'll quadruple - this, what's happening in Iran, is a disgrace, and it's going to lead to destruction in large portions of the world.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

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

If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

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.

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

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

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