Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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.

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

Pride goes before destruction.

Procrastination is the seed of self destruction.

Revenge can only be found on the road to 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.

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

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.

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 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.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

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

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

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

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 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 the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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 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 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 lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

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

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

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

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction! -Bacchus

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

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

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

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

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

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