Destruction Quotes

The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.

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

Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead.

[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.

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

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.

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.

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

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

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

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

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

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

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

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

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

I think that I feel that I have no choice but to operate under the illusion, which may be a delusion, that we can somehow get past the destruction that we have brought and that we are causing today.

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness.

Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

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

I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction.

Man does not live by destruction.

The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.