Destruction Quotes

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

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

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

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.

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.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

B.O.Y. means ‘Beware of You’… Be aware of your power. We have the choice to live positively or in our own destruction.

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

I regret the fact that Saddam [Hussein] didn't have weapons of mass destruction that we thought. I don't regret removing him from power.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.

I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

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

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

For me, it's either you're part of creation or you're part of destruction. It's inexplicable; it's like breathing, and I can't imagine not doing it.

There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.

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

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.

The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.