Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Pride goes before destruction.

Procrastination is the seed of 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.

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

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.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

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.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.

The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.