Destruction Quotes

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

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

New arts destroy the old.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.

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.

By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice.

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

I deplore the death and destruction she [Hillary Clinton] caused-stupidity.

No secretary of state has been more wrong more often and in more places that Hillary Clinton. Her decision spread death, destruction, and terrorism everywhere she touched.

The Donald Trump team hit back with a swift and stunning rebuke of the CIA. Quote, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."

The situation is worse than it has ever been before. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton - death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.

Hillary Clinton is totally for open borders - there goes your country - which would mean the destruction of America.

America has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases, or in some cases, are looking to do tremendous destruction.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

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

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.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.