Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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

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

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 takes two to destroy a marriage.

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.

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.

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 turned my anger inwards towards self-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.

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

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.

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

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

Man does not live by destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My New Obsession... is YOUR 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

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!

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

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.