Destruction Quotes

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.

Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

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

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

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

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

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

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

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

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.