Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

The politics of personal destruction, the politics of division, the politics of fear, it's all there. It helps you to define the politics of moderation - the politics of democratic respect, the politics of hope - more clearly.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

There are cases where examinations are admitted, namely, before the coroner, and before magistrates in cases of felony. That appears to me to go rather in support of the general rule than in destruction of it. Every exception that can be accounted for is so much a confirmation of the rule that it has become a maxim, Exceptio probat regulam.

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

The situation Abraham Lincoln faced was unique. In his view, the United States was threatened with destruction, ruin, overthrow, perishing - all words that he used - which is not the case for any other president, including the current one - Barack Obama.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction of the state of Israel and that you're involved in some actual or potential violent attack. But actually, you could say: "Not on this basis".

Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

We do not have weapons of mass destruction.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.