Destruction Quotes

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

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

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

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].

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

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.

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

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

Weapons of mass destruction are always in the wrong hands.

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

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.

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.

The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.

Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

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

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

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.

This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

“Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

But we cannot allow weapons of mass destruction to fall into the hands of terrorists. I will not allow that to happen.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.