Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

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 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 takes two to destroy a marriage.

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.

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

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

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.

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

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

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.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

Man does not live by destruction.

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.

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.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

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

Mutually assured 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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