Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

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

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

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

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

Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

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

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

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

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

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

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

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

[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 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 turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

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.

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.

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Man does not live by 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.

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.

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

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

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.