Destruction Quotes
The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.
In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.
With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another.
As I have said throughout, I have no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.
I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.
Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.