Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 takes two to destroy a marriage.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe New York shouldn't survive. Maybe it should go through a cycle of destruction.

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