Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

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

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

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

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

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Mutually assured destruction.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

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

My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!

Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.

Obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.

Our goal is to defend the American people, and to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place that has experienced both persecution and destruction The reason Nagasaki is famous, is because it is rebuilt, because it has always survived.

Peace and freedom! These things shall be! How soon these things shall be - whether now or whether after great destruction and new beginnings and eons of time - is up to us!

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

Pride goes before destruction.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

Russia has a long-term interest in Syria. Israel by and large does not have an issue with those long-term interests that Russia has in Syria. Israel has an issue with an Iranian regime that is trying to establish this land bridge, and that openly calls and actively works for Israel's destruction. And if you ask a hundred Israelis what they want to see in Syria, you're going to get 150 answers.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.